§ 44. Colonel WEDGWOODasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he is aware that K. H. Birtles, a conscientious objector who was on hunger strike in Wandsworth Prison, was kept without water from dinner-time on Sunday, 2nd March, till tea-time on Monday, 3rd March; and whether, in view of the instructions sent to the officials at Wandsworth Prison, he proposes to take any action in the matter?
§ Mr. SHORTTThe answer to the first question is in the negative, and the second question does not arise.