§ Mr. Meacherasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a full statement as to the circumstances surrounding the death of Peter Cahill at Brixton police station on 13 February and if he will institute an inquiry to discover in particular why, when he had been found collapsed outside King's College hospital from which he had just been discharged, he was taken 266W into police custody rather than returned into hospital care.
§ Mr. WhitelawThe circumstances surrounding the death of Mr. Cahill will be the subject of a public inquest to be held by the Southwark coroner, before a jury, on 2 April. It would not therefore be appropriate at present for me to make any statement or institute an inquiry.