§ 71. Mr. M. Stewartasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many adult persons, other than those already serving sentences of imprisonment, were convicted of offences rendering them liable to corporal punishment in the period of 12 months prior to legal abolition of that penalty; and how many such persons, in the period of 12 months following that date, were convicted of offences which, but for the alteration of the law would have rendered them so liable.
§ Sir D. Maxwell FyfeFigures are available only in respect of the offences under Section 23 (1) of the Larceny Act, 1916, relating to robbery. The number of males aged 17 and over found guilty of such offences in the 12 months up to and including September, 1948, the month in which corporal punishment as a court sentence was abolished was 322 and the number found guilty of such offences in the following 12 months was 321.