§ Mr. GLANVILLEasked the President of the Local Government Board why Horace J. Jones, a conscientious objector now serving six months' imprisonment in Wormwood Scrubs after court-martial at Mill Hill Barracks, has been refused his application to undertake work of national importance within the provisions of the Home Office scheme; if he is aware that the clerk to the Camberwell Tribunal suggested that a letter requesting Mr. Jones 1224W to find work of national importance had been forwarded to him, which letter Mr. Jones denies having received; and will he say why this man should have been sent to imprisonment because a letter had gone astray in the post, in spite of the fact that he is quite willing to undertake work under the direction of the Home Office Committee?
§ Mr. LONGThe facts do not appear to be as stated in the hon. Member's question. There is no record that a letter such as that mentioned was sent by the tribunal to the man. Moreover, I am informed that he has been offered work under the Home Office Committee, and has refused it.