§ 17. Mr. JOWETTasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will state, concerning the investigation into the truth of complaints made by suffragists about the conditions under which prisoners are removed in prison 528 vans, if the investigation is being cob-ducted in secret; if it is being conducted by the Commissioner of Police; and if the Commissioner of Police has refused to accept first-hand statements from the suffragists who laid the complaints which are the subject of his inquiry?
§ The SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. McKenna)The inquiry will be made jointly by an Assistant Commissioner of Police and one of the Prison Commissioners. It will be an ordinary administrative inquiry, and not in public. First-hand statements by the suffragists who complain will certainly be received. There has been no refusal of such statements.