§ MR. BERTRAM (Hertfordshire, Hitchin)To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he can state what was the cost of the special police protection afforded to the Palace of Westminster by reason of the suffragette demonstration directed against the House of Commons on Tuesday, 13th October last; and whether in the interests of the taxpayers, he will take any steps to recover any portion 924 of this cost from the Women's Social and Political Union, which gave notice of and arranged the demonstration.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Gladstone.) I cannot say what was the total cost involved on the occasion in question. I know of no means of recovering any portion of this cost from the Women's Social and Political Union.