§ MR. ANDERSON (Elgin and Nairn)asked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Will the Government grant the Return as to Preliminary Inquiries under the Prevention of Crime (Ireland) Act, 1882, on the Paper for Friday?
§ THE PARLIAMENTARY UNDER SECRETARY (Colonel KING-HARMAN) (Kent, Isle of Thanet)(who replied) said: All the information that can be given has already been furnished to the hon. Member in my reply to his Question of a few days since. The Government cannot give the Return asked for, as they have no official records which will enable them to do so. Some of the magistrates who held the inquiries are dead, or have left the Service.