HC Deb 10 April 1913 vol 51 c1365
Mr. KEIR HARDIE

I desire to ask the Home Secretary a question, of which I have given him private notice, namely: Whether Mrs. Pankhurst is still hunger-striking, and whether there is any truth in the rumour that she is now being forcibly fed?

The SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. McKenna)

Mrs. Pankhurst is still declining to take the food provided for her, but she is not being forcibly fed.

Mr. KEIR HARDIE

May I ask the right hon. Gentleman if he can say, without notice, whether any kind of special treatment is being given to Mrs. Pankhurst, such as injecting nutriment by hypodermic injection or by any other means?

Mr. McKENNA

I should regard that as one form of forcible feeding. Mrs. Pankhurst is receiving no special treatment of any kind at all. She has food left continuously in her cell.