§ Colonel DAYasked the Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether, in view of the great increase in the figures of recidivism in His Majesty's prisons, especially in the case of women prisoners, many of whom return to prison again and again and for whom some form of detention home treatment is suggested by the Prison Commissioners, he will consider introducing legislation or take such action that will result in the extension of the preventive detention system so as to include the habitual petty offender?
§ Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKSThis question is giving me grave anxiety, but I do not feel able to undertake the initiation of such a Measure at the present time.