§ 37. Mr. KENNEDYasked the Home Secretary if he has considered the numerous resolutions passed by labour organisations asking for the release or mitigation of the sentence of hard labour now being served by Albert Inkpin, the secretary of the British Communist party; and whether, in view of the political nature of the charge on which Inkpin was convicted and the fact that the state of his health makes his sentence one of solitary confinement, any steps are contemplated to give effect to the resolutions referred to?
§ Sir J. BAIRDThe hard labour has already been remitted. Inkpin is in hospital, and it is a mistake to speak of him as in solitary confinement.