§ 83. Mr. Haleasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department the annual averages of receptions in prison of civil process prisoners for the years 1941–45, 1946–50 and for 1953–57, respectively.
§ Mr. R. A. ButlerThe annual average number of receptions of civil prisoners in the years 1941–45 was 3,452. The average for 1946–50 was 4,642 and for 1953–56 6,157. I regret that the figures for 1957 are not yet available.
§ 84. Mr. Haleasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will state for the 12 months to the most recent convenient date and for the preceding 12 months' period the daily average prison population of adult male and female prisoners.
§ Mr. R. A. ButlerIn 1955 the daily average adult prison population was 16,943 men and 739 women. In 1956 it was 16,634 men and 668 women. The figures for 1957 have not yet been analysed, but the daily average adult population for that year is provisionally estimated at 17,580 men and 650 women.