DETENTION OF A MEMBER (ADVISORY COMMITTEE).

HC Deb 08 August 1940 vol 364 c419

66. Mr. Kirkwood

asked the Home Secretary the names of the Advisory Committee which investigated the case of the hon. and gallant Member for Peebles and Southern (Captain Ramsay)?

Sir J. Anderson

The committee was composed of Mr. Norman Birkett (chairman), Sir George Clerk, Sir Arthur Hazlerigg, and Miss Violet Markham.

Captain W. T. Shaw

Is it a fact that my right hon. Friend's Department did not produce a single witness before this tribunal?

Mr. Stokes

The Gestapo did.

Mr. Kirkwood

Should not the constituency in my Question read "Peebles and South Midlothian"?