MR. KEIR-HARDIE (West Ham, S.)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department on what grounds the Governor has refused to-state the reasons two warders named Potter and Winn were dismissed from Strangeways Prison, Manchester, on 24th January, 1893; and whether it is in accordance with the conditions regulating. the employment of warders to dismiss them without assigning any reason for so doing; and, if not, will he state the reasons which induced the Governor of Strangeways Prison to dismiss these men?
§ MR. ASQUITHBy a telegram just received from the Governor of the prison I learn that he did, in the presence of the chief warder, acquaint the two officers with the reasons for their discharge on the morning of the day on which they were dismissed. Potter and Winn were both discharged by the Prison Commissioners for trafficking and general inefficiency as prison officers.