HC Deb 30 May 1911 vol 26 cc1040-1W
Sir JOHN BRIGG

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he will ascertain the cost per head of the maintenance of the men in the labour colony at Veenhuizen, in Holland, and at Mirplax, in Belgium, for the year 1910?

Sir E. GREY

At the labour colony at Veenhuizen, the net cost per head in 1910 was about eightpence a day. I will instruct His Majesty's Minister at Brussels to make inquiries respecting the cost of maintenance in the colony at Mirplax, which is a penal colony.