§ 4. Mr. Adleyasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department in which prison Miss Ward is detained.
§ Mr. Roy JenkinsIt is not the practice to make public reference to the location of individual prisoners. I am, however, writing to the hon. Member with this information.
§ Mr. AdleyI am grateful for that reply, but does not the Home Secretary consider that people like this person are enemies of the State? Might not it be in the national interest in future to consider recognising their claim that they are politically motivated by seeking to accuse those who commit such crimes of treason? Will the right hon. Gentleman take this point seriously and discuss it with the Law Officers?
§ Mr. JenkinsI find that supplementary question wholly muddled. I do not follow the relevance of it. When I have pronouncements to make about members of the IRA, I make them without hesitation, but there is no point in trying to compete in violence of language where it is not called for by the terms of the Question. Neither does the Question relate to the law of treason, which is under review but is not of direct relevance here.