§ MR. CHANNING (Northamptonshire, E.)To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will explain why, in the new order as to prisons, the instruction in trades and general education hitherto given to prisoners is in future to be withheld from alien prisoners; and whether any, and, if so, what, useful occupation is to be allowed for these prisoners in substitution for the instruction hitherto given.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Akers Douglas.) If the hon. Member is referring to a paragraph which appeared yesterday in certain newspapers, I may inform him that the statement that there has been any new rule or order with regard to alien prisoners is entirely without foundation.