HC Deb 17 April 1913 vol 51 cc2144-5W
Mr. WEDGWOOD

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many persons are at present being partly or wholly forcibly fed at this time in His Majesty's prisons in England and Wales?

Mr. McKENNA

At the present time four prisoners convicted of offences in connection with the suffrage agitation are being forcibly fed. I cannot say whether any other prisoners are being forcibly fed without inquiry of all the prisons.

Mr. WEDGWOOD

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether proceedings have been taken against Miss Annie Kenney under Section 1 of the Act of 34 Edward III.; whether this Section is to be read as in the original version in old French or as in the English translation, first printed in 1810 in the Statutes of the Realm; and on what grounds is considered that Miss Kenney was a pillor and robber in the parts beyond the sea?

Mr. McKENNA

I would refer my hon. Friend to the answer which I gave to him to-day. Miss Kenney is not charged as a "pillor and robber in the parts beyond the sea." [See Oral Answers this date.]