§ Captain Kerbyasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will instruct the Metropolitan Police to concentrate their activities against persons Who organise prostitution in London instead of engaging in sporadic: offensives against prostitutes soliciting in the streets of the Metropolis, since these offensives are, in the long run, bound to be ineffective.
§ Major Lloyd-GeorgeThe Commissioner of Police tells me that it: is not the practice of the Metropolitan police, in dealing with the problem of prostitution, to pay attention only to solicitation in the streets, or to deal with this aspect of the problem only by way of sporadic offensives. In 1954, in addition to the action regularly taken to deal with street solicitation, the police kept observation on 273 premises suspected of being used for immoral purposes, and investigated101 cases of suspected living on immoral earnings.
150Wmoconiosis panels; the number of such cases diagnosed; the proportion of diagnoses to claimants; the total number of coalminers covered by each area; and the proportion of both claimants and diagnoses to the total numbers of miners in each area.
§ Mr. Joynson-HicksFollowing are the figures: