§ Mr. Foulkesasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many convicted criminals and criminally insane are currently held under the provisions of the Colonial Prisoners Removal Acts; where they were removed from; and where they are now held.
§ Mr. EggarThere are no convicted criminals or criminally insane persons held in any dependent territory under the Colonial Prisoners Removal Acts.
There are six prisoners convicted of offences in British dependent territories who are serving sentence in the United Kingdom under the provisions of the Colonial Prisoners Removal Acts at the request of the authorities of the territory where the prisoner was sentenced. All but one of these cases, which is under consideration, are held here at the expence of the territory concerned. Two of the prisoners are from St. Helena, one from the British Indian Ocean Territory, two from Bermuda and one from the Turks and Caicos Islands.
Additionally, there are a small number of persons normally resident in the United Kingdom who have been convicted of crimes in the dependent territories and transferred to this country under the Acts to serve their sentences, but there is no central record of such transfers.