§ Mrs. GoldingTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people were(a) prosecuted and convicted in the Metropolitan and City of London police districts in the year ended December 1989 under the Vagrancy Act 1824 for (i) begging and (ii) sleeping out, (b) prosecuted and convicted in the rest of England and Wales in the same period for the same offences; and how many people at (a) and (b) above (i) were fined, (ii) received custodial sentences, (iii) served custodial sentences in default of payment of fines, (iv) received conditional discharges and (v) received probation orders.
§ Mr. John PattenData for 1989 will not be available until November.