– in the House of Commons am ar 3 Gorffennaf 1935.
Mr Robert Bernays
, Bristol North
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he can give the average daily population of the prisons in England and Wales in 1924 and in 1934 or the nearest convenient date?
Captain Euan Wallace
, Hornsey
The daily average population of all establishments excluding Borstal Institutions, was 10,097 in 1923–24, and 10,154 in 1934.
Secretary of State was originally the title given to the two officials who conducted the Royal Correspondence under Elizabeth I. Now it is the title held by some of the more important Government Ministers, for example the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
