§ 5. Mr. RAMSDENasked the President of the Board of Trade if he will give the numbers and original nationalities of all persons convicted of fraudulent trading during the past two years?
§ The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Captain Hacking)I have been asked to reply. I regret that the information asked for is not available. It may, however, be of interest to my hon. Friend to know that, according to the published Criminal Statistics for 1924, out of 1,867 persons received into prison during that year on convictions for various kind of fraud, 52 (2.7 per cent.) were born in foreign countries. Corresponding figures for 1925 are not yet available.