HC Deb 20 February 1990 vol 167 c659W
Mr. Cox

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is the number of qualified executioners at present in the United Kingdom; and how and by whom such people are trained for this work.

Mr. Mellor

No one is now employed or trained for this task, and we do not know how many of those who performed it in the past are still alive.