§ 9 and 10. Mr. GEORGE HALLasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies (1) what action the Ceylon Government has taken, or proposes to take in the near furture, to carry out the recommendations made by Mr. Justice Garvin in the report of the Prison Inquiry Commission, 1931;
(2) what disciplinary action has been taken in respect of the four prison officials who were proved, by evidence placed before Mr. Justice Garvin in the course of his inquiry, to have assaulted the prisoner Balasuriya while in prison?
§ The SECRETARY of STATE for the COLONIES (Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister)I would refer the hon. Member to the statement which I made on the 13th April in reply to the right hon. and gallant Member for Newcastle-under-Lyme (Colonel Wedgwood), of which I am sending him a copy.