§ 108. Mr. Haleasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department the number of male prisoners received into Her Majesty's Prisons in 1926, 1936, and 1956, respectively, ordered to serve sentences, whether single or consecutive, of imprisonment for a period of seven years or more.
§ Mr. R. A. ButlerIn 1926, the number of men so sentenced to imprisonment (including penal servitude, and penal servitude followed by preventive detention) was 45. In 1936 it was 39. The information requested in respect of the year 1956 is not yet available but in 1955, 292 men received sentences of imprisonment or preventive detention of this length.