§ Mr. G. TERRELLasked the Home Secretary why Mrs. Burnyeat, the German-born wife of the late Mr. W. J. D. Burnyeat, formerly Member of Parliament for Whitehaven, has been released from the internment camp at Aylesbury; whether Mrs. Burnyeat is now residing at Harrogate; and whether he is aware that tome of the inhabitants of Harrogate are indignant at the release of this woman of German sentiments and sympathies from internment, seeing that she acted as hostess to a German woman spy, who is now serving a sentence of penal servitude for life?
Mr. SAMUELMrs. Burnyeat was released temporarily at the end of April when her husband was gravely ill. After his death, in view of the medical evidence as to the state of her health, I decided, with the concurrence of the competent military authority, on whose recommendation she was interned, to allow her to reside at Harrogate under very stringent restrictions. No representations to the effect of the last part of the question have reached me. I am satisfied that the restrictions under which this lady now lives adequately meet the present needs of the case.