§ Sir H. CAYZERasked the Home Secretary the number of males sentenced to Borstal detention and who had been granted licences, and whose licences had been revoked during 1931; and the number of males who had been placed in the penal grade during the same period?
§ Sir H. SAMUELThe number of youths whose Borstal licences were revoked in the first 10 months of 1931 was 202. Almost all these were placed in the penal grade on recall. In addition, there were Borstal inmates placed in the penal grade for disciplinary reasons while still serving their sentences.
§ Sir H. CAYZERasked the Home Secretary the last figures available showing the annual cost per person detained in industrial schools, reformatories, Borstal institutions, local prisons, convict prisons and the preventive detention prison at Camp Hill, respectively?
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§ Sir H. SAMUELAs regards reformatory and industrial schools, the latest available figures are those for 1928–29, when the cost per person was £73 8s. 8d. As regards the other establishments mentioned, a statement showing in each case the average annual charge per inmate is included in the Annual Reports of the Prison Commissioners. The last published figures, for the financial year ended856W 31st March, 1930, will be found in Appendix 8 (Table B) to their Report for the year 1929, Cmd. 3868. These figures provide a valid basis of comparison as between the different types of institution to which they relate, but reformatory and industrial schools are under an entirely different regime and the figures there would require adjustment to make them strictly comparable.