§ Squadron Leader A. E. Cooperasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, in view of the declaration on the dissolution of the revolutionary, or Trotsky, Communist Party, a copy of which has been sent him. what steps are being taken to keep individual members of this body under surveillance.
§ Mr. EdeThe document in question relates to the decision of the members of this organisation, which was made public last year, to dissolve the organisation and to enter the Labour Party as individuals. It does not disclose any reason for keeping them under surveillance, and in any event it would not be in the public interest to disclose whether an eye was being kept on the activities of any particular individual.