§ SIR CHARLES CAMERON (Glasgow, Bridgeton)I beg to ask the Lord Advocate whether the Secretary for Scotland has received any representations urging the addition of a lady to the Departmental Committee recently appointed by him to inquire into the treatment of prisoners in Scottish prisons; and whether, having regard to the large number of woman prisoners concerned, he will consider the propriety of adding a female member to the Committee, as was done in the case of the Departmental Committee on English prisons of 1894, and that on habitual offenders, etc., in Scotland of the same year.
§ *MR. A. GRAHAM MURRAYThe reply to the first question is in the affirmative, and an answer was sent which has appeared in the newspapers. If the Committee find it necessary, a female assistant commissioner will be appointed, but it is not proposed to add to the number of members on the Committee.