§ 70. Mr. Haleasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will state the number of prosecutions brought for contravention of Section 1 (1) of the Children and Young Persons Act, 1933, in each of the last three years to the most recent convenient date; and how many convictions were recorded on indictment and on summary trial, respectively, in each of those years.
§ Mr. R. A. ButlerFigures for the offences classed together in the Criminal Statistics as "cruelty to or neglect of children", most of which are offences under Section 1 (1) of the Children and Young Persons Act, 1933, are as follows:
Year Number of persons prosecuted Number of persons convicted By magistrates' courts By superior courts 1957 879 774 17 1958 726 645 21 1959 713 641 12