§ MR. RADFORD (Islington, E.)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will communicate with the Prison Commissioners with a view to framing and allowing prison rules by which the Governors of His Majesty's Prisons at Brixton and Holloway may be directed to transmit to the councils of the Metropolitan boroughs, on the usual quarter-days, returns containing the names of the prisoners committed for non-payment of the general rate, with the sums mentioned in the warrants of commitment and the amounts remitted to the borough treasurers of the respective boroughs during the preceding quarter; and whether he will confer with the Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain as to the desirability of adopting a similar procedure for Police Courts in the Metropolis, as provided for under Sections 2 and 1780 9 of The Prison Act, 1898, and Section 29 of the Summary Jurisdiction Act, 1879.
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. GLADSTONE,) Leeds, W.I am unwilling at the present time to throw on the staff of the prisons or Police Courts more additional clerical labour than is actually necessary, but I will give my best consideration to any suggestions that the borough councils may make to me on the subject to which the hon. Member refers.