§ Mr. DAYasked the Home Secretary the number of sexual offences committed against girls under 16 years of age in the County of London for the 12 months ended to the last convenient date?
§ Mr. CLYNESThe figures available, which relate to the Metropolitan Police District and not to the County of London, show that in 1926 seven cases of defilement of girls under 13 and 21 cases of defilement of girls aged from 13 to 16, came to the knowledge of the police.