§ Mr. Thomas Coxasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many prostitutes were sent to prison in each of the past three years.
§ Mr. BrittanInformation in the form requested is not available. Information on those received into prison department establishments for offences relating to prostitution is published annually in "Prison Statistics, England and Wales"—tables 3.2, 4.1 and 5.1 of the volume for 1977, Cmnd. 7286. These figures include those sentenced to imprisonment, borstal training and to a detention centre and show separately those imprisoned in default of payment of a fine.