§ Mr. G. MACDONALDasked the Home Secretary the number of cases of robbery with violence in the past 12 months up to the latest convenient date and the number of cases in which the sentence included punishment with the birch or cat, and similar figures for the past five years?
§ Sir H. SAMUELFigures for 1931 are not yet available. Figures for the five preceding years are as follow:
Numbers of persons convicted of robbery, armed or with violence, and numbers of sentences of corporal punishment passed on such persons in England and Wales from 1926 to 1930:—
— Persons convicted. Sentences of Corporal Punishment. Birch. Cat. Total. 1926 56 1 13 14 1927 50 — 12 12 1928 45 2 14 16 1929 53 3 15 18 1930 89 7 6 13