§ 103. Mr. de Freitasasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he is aware that a mother, sentenced recently to three months imprisonment for larceny, was not allowed to take her four months old baby into prison with her; and whether he will have the regulations revised so that in such circumstances infants may receive the same consideration that would have been given 15W to them if they had been born in prison, that is to say, they are allowed to stay with the mother until nine months old.
§ Major Lloyd-GeorgeThere is nothing in the present practice to prevent a nursing mother received into prison having her child with her under the same conditions as if it had been born while the mother was in prison. In the case which I think the hon. Member has in mind, the baby was bottle-fed, and the mother at no time, as I am informed, showed any desire to have it with her in prison.