§ Mr. Arthur Lewisasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, in the light of a recent case, details of which have been sent to him, of a person being found guilty of indecent behaviour in a public place and being sentenced to be bound over for 12 months, in how many cases in London such sentences have been awarded for similar offences, for any stated period of time, and, of these, how many were tried at the Horseferry Road court.
§ Mr. MayhewInformation on the numbers of persons found guilty at magistrates' courts in England and Wales and required to enter into a recognisance is published annually by offence classification in "Criminal Statistics, England and Wales"—table 1(a) of the volume for 1979, Cmnd. 8098. Information for a particular police force area or court could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.