91. Surgeon Lieut.-Commander Bennettasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department the circumstances in which 18 abscondings recently occurred in eight days from the Borstal training institution at Hollesley Bay, near Ipswich.
§ Mr. EdeI understand that this batch of abscondings involved 10 separate incidents, with no concerted purpose behind them, but I shall have fuller information when an inquiry which I am having made on the spot by a Borstal assistant commissioner is completed. On the general question of abscondings from Hollesley Bay Colony I would refer the hon. Member to the replies which I gave on 14th December and 18th April last to the hon. Member for Eye (Mr. Granville).