HC Deb 16 October 1952 vol 505 c33W
59. Mr. Hale

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many persons are now serving sentences in Her Majesty's prisons for failing to comply with an order relating to reporting for military service or for medical examination and in respect of which a claim to conscientious objection has been made.

Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe

There are 20 such persons in prisons in England and Wales.