HC Deb 25 June 1940 vol 362 c297
44. Mr. Stokes

asked the Prime Minister whether he will consider devoting one day of each week to a secret Session, at which it would not be necessary for all Ministers to attend, so that Members may be free to express their views on the immediate situation as it occurs without danger to the common good, and without giving the wrong impression that a special sitting is likely to do?

Mr. Attlee

No, Sir. I think it best that arrangements should be made for a secret Session to take place when there is a general desire for a Debate on a specific subject.

Mr. Stokes

Do the Prime Minister and the Lord Privy Seal realise that it takes time to go "through the usual channels," and that as the war gets nearer home it will become imperative that Members shall be able to come to this House and speak their minds openly, without fear of giving any information to the enemy?