HC Deb 17 June 1918 vol 107 c39
82. Mr. KING

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he is aware that there is nothing in Regulation 14B to prevent advisory committees appointed thereunder from sitting in public; and whether he will give instructions that all sittings of the Advisory Committee which may hear representations from any persons interned in Great Britain shall be open to the public Press?

Mr. BRACE

I would refer the hon. Member to the reply given by my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary to a question by the hon. Member for Blackburn on 22nd October last. The Committee settles its own procedure, and it decided, for reasons with which my right hon. Friend fully concurs, that its proceedings must be private.