HC Deb 25 July 1929 vol 230 cc1463-4
29. Mr. LANG

asked the Home Secretary if he is in agreement with the circular issued by the last Home Secretary urging magistrates not to impose short sentences upon first offenders ordered imprisonment?

Mr. CLYNES

I have no knowledge of such a circular.

Mr. LANG

Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that a large number of cases have occurred in which the instruction to impose longer sentences has been re- garded as a supersession of the Probation of Offenders Act?

Mr. CLYNES

If my hon. Friend has knowledge of such cases, I shall be glad to consider them.