§ Mr. Sorensenasked the Home Secretary whether the instructions to prison governors, dated 10th January, 1925, concerning their evidence at inquests on executed persons, still includes the direction that the manner in which an execution has been carried out should be 1958W confined to a brief general statement; and whether, in the public interest, he will consider giving the more precise effect of a judicial punishment, or let it be available on request for a legitimate sociological purpose?
§ Mr. H. MorrisonIt would be contrary to public policy to publish the terms of departmental instructions which are issued from time to time to prison governors, but if my hon. Friend fears that there may be something in the existing instructions to prevent the giving of full and relevant information at coroners' inquests, I can assure him that there is no ground for such apprehension.