§ Mr. Kilroy-Silkasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what were the ages, length and place of imprisonment of the 17 men aged 60 years and over sentenced to immediate imprisonment in 1979 for begging and sleeping out.
§ Mr. BrittanIn 1979 there were 16 receptions of males aged 60 and over into prison department establishments in England and Wales under sentence of immediate imprisonment for the principal offence of begging and sleeping out. One reception shown in table 4.1 of "Prison Statistics England and Wales 1979" (Cmnd. 7978) as begging and sleeping out was found, on further examination, to have been misclassified.
The 16 receptions were of 11 men; one, aged 60 on first reception, was received four times, one aged 66 was received three times and the remainder, three aged 63, two aged 62, two aged 66, one aged 61 and one aged 75, were each received once.
One of the sentences was of seven days, one of 14 days, two of 28 days, six of one month, two of 42 days, one of 44 days, two of 60 days and one of 104 days. One man was received on sentence into Durham, one into Winchester, four receptions were into Oxford and the remaining 10 receptions were into Pentonville.
§ Mr. Kilroy-Silkasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what were the ages of the three women imprisoned in 1979 for begging and sleeping out; and the length and place of imprisonment.
§ Mr. BrittanIn 1979, three women were received into prison department establishments in England and Wales sentenced to immediate imprisonment for10W a principal offence of begging and sleeping out. One, aged 55, was received into Risley remand centre on sentence of one month. The others, aged 62 and 64, were received into Holloway prison on sentence of 14 days and three months (two months for begging and sleeping out and one month consecutive for another offence) respectively.
§ Mr. Kilroy-Silkasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what are the ages, offences, length and place of imprisonment served of the three males aged 17–20 years subject to immediate imprisonment in 1979 and the male imprisoned in default of payment of a fine for begging and sleeping out.
§ Mr. BrittanThe classification "begging and slipping out" in "Prison Statistics England and Wales 1979" (Cmnd. 7978) includes persons received into prison department establishments under sentence for offences against the Vagrancy Act 1824.
In 1979 one male aged 18 was received into Liverpool prison under a sentence of three months' immediate imprisonment for an offence of being on enclosed premises (section 4 of the Vagrancy Act 1824). Another male aged 18 was received into Wormwood Scrubs prison under sentence of seven days' imprisonment in default of payment of a fine for an offence against the Vagrancy Act 1824.
Two of the receptions shown in table 3.2 of "Prison Statistics England and Wales 1979" (Cmnd. 7978) under the classification "begging and sleeping out" were found, on closer examination, to have been misclassified.