§ SIR WILFRID LAWSONasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether cases have been reported to Sir Benson Maxwell of prisoners having been recently condemned in Egypt without counsel or witnesses in defence being admitted?
§ LORD EDMOND FITZMAURICESir, Her Majesty's Government have not received any information, since the appointment of Sir Benson Maxwell, which would lead them to conclude that the statement in the Question is correct. They have not received a Report of the trials.
§ SIR WILFRID LAWSONHas no Report been received at all?
§ LORD EDMOND FITZMAURICESir Benson Maxwell does not report to Her Majesty's Government. He is not in the service of Her Majesty's Government, but of the Egyptian Government.