HC Deb 27 March 1952 vol 498 cc813-4
10. Lieut.-Colonel Lipton

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what Ministers are provided with personal police protection; and what additions have recently been made to the number of such Ministers.

Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe

As my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister stated on 3rd December in reply to the hon. Member for Accrington (Mr. H. Hynd), the Ministers who regularly receive police protection are the Prime Minister, the Foreign Secretary and the Home Secretary. Other Ministers may receive protection from time to time for special reasons but it would not be in the public interest to disclose the details.

Lieut.-Colonel Lipton

In view of statements that have appeared in the Press, will the Home Secretary either confirm or deny that, as a result of a trip abroad, the Colonial Secretary is now receiving police protection?

Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe

No, Sir. I do not go beyond the last sentence of my answer.