§ THE MARQUESS OF ABERDEEN AND TEMAIR had given Notice to move that he be given leave to advance to to-morrow the following Notice standing in his name for Thursday next:—
§ "To draw attention to the Report of the Committee on the Employment of Women on Police Duties (of which Sir John Baird, Bart., M.P., was Chairman), in which the first conclusion arrived at was the following: 'That the experience of the war has proved that women can be employed with advantage to the community in the performance of certain police duties which, before the war, were exclusively discharged by men'; and to ask, if in view of the large amount of expert evidence received by that Committee in favour of the above recommendation, and also in view of the useful work since performed in various centres by women police, information will be available as to the source of the evidence which led the Committee on National Expenditure, in their Second Interim Report, to make a recommendation which if adopted would lead to the disband- 345 ment of the women police patrols in the Metropolitan area."
§ The noble Marquess said: My Lords, I beg formally to make the Motion which appears in my name on the Paper.
§ Moved accordingly, and, on Question, Motion agreed to.