§ Mr. LUTTRELLasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will state how many persons were, in 1908, sentenced to imprisonment or committed to prison in default of payment of a fine, upon the order of a single justice; and how many of these were so sentenced or committed for a period exceeding seven days?
§ Mr. C. F. G. MASTERMANThe Secretary of State regrets to say that he cannot furnish the information which my hon. Friend desires. There are no statistics of committals by a single justice. A single1244W justice, not a stipendiary, cannot however commit for more than 14 days.