– in the House of Commons am 12:00 am ar 30 Ionawr 1947.
Mr Reginald Sorensen
, Leyton West
12:00,
30 Ionawr 1947
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many inmates in remand homes or approved schools were punished by four or more strokes in corporal punishment during the last quarter of 1946.
Mr James Ede
, South Shields
120 boys (on 129 occasions) in remand homes and, apart from schoolroom canings. 649 boys (on 747 occasions) in approved schools.
Mr Reginald Sorensen
, Leyton West
Is my right hon. Friend aware that both proportionately and absolutely there are far fewer inflictions of corporal punishment in prisons and Borstal institutions than in remand homes or approved schools; and will he, therefore, give special attention to the question?
Mr James Ede
, South Shields
Yes, Sir, but I am reluctant to do anything that would encourage some of the intellectual tortures that some people propose to substitute for caning.
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.
