§ Mr. STRANGERasked the Home Secretary the average cost of maintenance of prisoners in July, 1914, and in July, 1924, in convict prisons, in local prisons, and in all prisons, respectively; and the value of labour deducted in arriving at the net cost, in each of these classes?
Mr. HENDERSONInformation on these points is given in the Annual Reports of the Prison Commissioners, for example, in Appendix 10 of the Report for 1922–1923. It would not be possible to give the figures for any particular month without a vast amount of research and clerical labour.