§ 65. Sir J. Lucasasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will state the comparative figures for robbery with violence in the twelve months immediately previous to the abolition of 67W flogging for that offence, and also the comparative figures for the latest available 12 monthly period.
§ Mr. R. A. ButlerCorporal punishment was abolished as a judicial penalty in September, 1948. In 1947 the number of offences of robbery with violence known to the police was 842; in 1956 the number was 730.