HC Deb 20 March 1890 vol 342 cc1246-7
MR. SEXTON

In compliance with the notification which I gave last week, I beg to ask whether the Home Secretary will now lay upon the Table a copy of the Report and evidence relating to the case of the prisoner John Daly?

MR. MATTHEWS

I have not yet received the Report; but inconsequence of the question addressed to me last week I have inquired when I may expect to receive it, and have ascertained that the Prison Visitors desire that a certain analysis should be made by the officers of the authorities at Somerset House, and that the Visitors are awaiting the result of that analysis.

MR. SEXTON

Considering the nature of the allegations, will the right hon. Gentleman be good enough to exert himself in securing a copy of this Report before the Report of the Vote on Account is taken?

MR. MATTHEWS

I have done my best to expedite the Report.

MR. SEXTON

Unless the Report has been presented, I will revert to the question on the Report of the Vote on Account.

* THE FIRST LORD OF THE TREASURY (Mr. W. H. SMITH,) Strand, Westminster

I am afraid that unless the Report on the Vote on Account is taken to-morrow, many of Her Majesty's servants will have to go without their salaries.