HC Deb 19 June 1930 vol 240 cc562-3
31. Mr. THURTLE

asked the Home Secretary if records are kept by his Department of the religious beliefs of persons imprisoned in His Majesty's gaols?

Mr. CLYNES

Every prisoner on his admission to prison is asked to declare his religious persuasion, and such information as prisoners give is on record at the individual prisons. A return from prisons was collected recently and I am sending my hon. Friend a copy.

Mr. KIRKWOOD

I thought from the number of questions as regard Russia that Russia was the only country where they put people in prison in respect of religion.

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