§ 47. Mr. LOVAT-FRASERasked the Home Secretary how many persons under 21 years of age have been bound over, placed on probation, or sent to prison for loitering with intent to commit a felony during 1931; and how many of these were first offenders?
§ Sir J. GILMOURI regret that the only figure I can give is the number of persons under 21 who were charged with frequenting and were placed on probation with supervision: it was 236. Information is not available which would enable me to answer the rest of the question.
§ 48. Mr. LOVAT-FRASERasked the Home Secretary how many of those who were sent to Wormwood Scrubs prison during 1931 were committed for loitering with intent to commit a felony?
§ Sir J. GILMOURThe information is not available, and I regret that I should not feel justified in incurring the expenditure which would be necessary to extract it specially from the prison records.