§ Mr. McENTEEasked the First Lord of the Admiralty the number of floggings that have taken place in the Navy during the years 1921 and 1922?
§ Commander EYRES-MONSELLI assume that the hon. Member's question refers to birching, flogging (with the cat o' nine tails) having long been abolished in the Royal Navy. There were three cases of birching in 1921, and none in 1922. I would refer the hon. Member to the reply given to my hon. Friend the Member for Ealing (Sir H. Nield) on the 26th June, 1922, which deals with both punishments.