HC Deb 24 October 1973 vol 861 cc496-7W
Mr. Edward Taylor

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will make a statement on the work of the Scottish Council on Crime.

Mr. Gordon Campbell

I refer my hon. Friend to the statement on the current work of the Scottish Council on Crime made on 24th July 1973 in reply to a Question by the hon. Member for Lanarkshire, North (Mr. John Smith)—[Vol. 860, c.414–5.] I am sending my hon. Friend a copy of the text of a speech giving a fuller account of the work of the council which was made by its chairman, Lord Hunter, and which has been recently published in the Scots Law Times.