§ The following Question stood upon the Order Paper in the name of Earl WINTERTON:
§ 17. To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department the number of convictions and acquittals in sexual cases by magistrates and juries, respectively, in 1948.
§ Earl WintertonAs this Question asks for a number of figures I should prefer to have a written answer.
§ The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Ede)I was quite prepared to give the figures.