§ Mr. Iain Millsasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he is satisfied that the needs of hon. Members who may wish to complain about members of the probation service are adequately met in the circumstances outlined in his reply to the hon. Member for Meriden on 31 March, whereby they must seek to obtain the names of the members of the employing authority from the chief probation officer who is an employee of the authority and may himself be the subject of the hon. Members' complaints.
§ Mr. MayhewThe easiest way in which a complaint or other communication can be made to a probation and after-care committee is by addressing it to "The Secretary of the Probation and After-Care Committee" at the offices of the county council for the area. In inner London, however, the secretary of the committee is the Director of Administration in the office of the Receiver for the Metropolitan Police District at New Scotland Yard; in the City of London it is the clerk to the justices. This Department is always ready to help any hon. Member who, for whatever reason, wishes to make more personal contact with a probation and after-care committee or the probation service.