§ 104. Viscount Hinchingbrookeasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he is aware that British-born subjects resident in Guernsey before June, 1940, whose property in Guernsey has been lost or destroyed owing to the action of the enemy or allied bombing, have been refused compensation on the ground that they are no longer resident in Guernsey but are resident in this country; and What steps he proposes to take to ensure that British subject's whose property has been destroyed or lost in these circumstances shall receive adequate compensation.
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§ Mr. EdeAs I explained in my reply to the hon. Member for Orpington (Sir W. Smithers) on 5th December last the cost of rehabilitation schemes for the Channel Islands is being found by local borrowing, and because of the financial position of the islands it has necessarily been limited to rehabilitating persons who return to the islands. The War Damage Compensation Schemes of the United Kingdom do not extend to the islands, which have their own fiscal system, and, much as I sympathise with those who have suffered losses, the cost of making good such losses could not properly be placed on the British taxpayer.
Year January-March. April-June. July-September. October-December. Total. Fined. Imprisonment. Fined. Imprisonment. Fined. Imprisonment. Fined. Imprisonment. Fined. Imprisonment. 1939 … … — — — — — — — — 55,204 30 *1940 … … — — — — — — — — 37,841 1,032 *1941 … … — — — — — — — — 265,399 2,070 *1942 … … — — — — — — — — 216,856 3,341 1943 … … 56,056 670 40,813 665 38,423 682 38,594 443 174,062 2,601 1944 … … 39,624 515 35,748 807 29,436 833 22,038 631 127,017 2,898 1945 … … 19,852 674 14,906 461 6,845 413 5,878 201 47,625 1,852 †1946 … … 4,422 185 4,024 134 — — — — — — * Quarterly totals for these years are not available. † Figures are for Magistrates Courts only; figures for Assizes and Quarter Sessions are not available.
§ Viscount Hinchingbrookeasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many persons were serving terms of imprisonment for offences against Defence Regulations and Statutes passed since September, 1939, on 1st December in each of the years 1939 to 1946, inclusive.
§ Mr. EdeI regret that information is not available showing how many of the persons serving sentences of imprisonment on a given date had been sentenced for offences of a particular category.