§ Sir N. GRATTAN-DOYLEasked the Attorney-General on how many occasions and for what periods of time on each occasion the Parliamentary journalist was interviewed by police officials for the purpose of asking him to give the source of his information respecting the decision to arrest Gandhi?
§ The ATTORNEY-GENERALOn two occasions. The first interview, including the writing out and signature of a statement, lasted about an hour and a-half. The second interview, including the preparation of a further statement, lasted about two hours, but about one hour of this time was taken up by the journalist telephoning to other persons concerned.
§ Sir N. GRATTAN-DOYLEasked the Attorney-General whether, since the passing of the Official Secrets Act, 1920, there have been occasions, other than the recent one, on which Parliamentary journalists have been subjected to police interrogation arising out of the publication of information relating to decisions of the Cabinet?
§ The ATTORNEY-GENERALI am informed that the provisions of Section 6 of the Act have been put into operation on several occasions, and that on at least one such occasion the investigations were concerned with disclosures of Cabinet information, but I have no information enabling me to say who was interrogated.