HC Deb 09 November 1944 vol 404 cc1525-6
32. Mr. Driberg

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many of the 18B detainees whom he has released have been released unconditionally; and how many under such conditions as were imposed on Sir Oswald Mosley, or under other conditions.

Mr. H. Morrison

Eight hundred and nineteen persons were released unconditionally, and 934 were released subject to conditions appropriate to the circumstances of each case. Of those released conditionally 204 have had their conditions cancelled after subsequent review of their cases at a later date.

Mr. Driberg

Could the right hon. Gentleman say whether the person referred to in Question 30 comes under the "conditional" or the "unconditional" category?

[30. Mr. PRITT to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he is aware that certain professed Fascists are organising a league of ex-Service men and women and are conducting propaganda for this league in Hyde Park on a basis of anti-Semitic agitation; that one of the principal propagandists has recently been released from detention under Regulation 18B; whether this person was released conditionally or unconditionally; and what steps he proposes to take to check the anit-Semitic and other Fascist activities of this body.]

Mr. Morrison

Question 30 was not asked Perhaps my hon. Friend will read it and the answer to it carefully in the OFFICIAL REPORT.

Miss Rathbone

Did the conditions imposed include a condition that the persons concerned were not to take part in anti-Semitic propaganda, likely to lead as it generally does to bloodshed, such as the propaganda now going on in Hyde Park?

Mr. Speaker

The hon. Member cannot ask a supplementary on a Question which was not asked