§ MR. BROOKFIELD (Sussex, Rye)asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether he can state when the Report of the Royal Commission on Capital Punishment is likely to be published?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE (Mr. MATTHEWS) (Birmingham, E.)There is no Royal Commission now sitting on 1349 Capital Punishment; but a Departmental Committee was appointed last year to consider the best mode of carrying out the sentence of death. The Chairman of this Committee, Lord Aberdare, has unhappily been incapacitated by an accident from attending to business. He is now abroad, and for the present the proceedings of the Committee are in abeyance.