HC Deb 15 March 1920 vol 126 cc1866-8W
Mr. W. THORNE

asked the Home Secretary whether any explosives of any description have been and are stored at any of the police stations; whether at Lavender Hill Police Station there are any explosives stored; whether the word "explosives" is written or printed on one of the sealed doors; and, if so, whether, seeing that Lavender Hill is a thickly populated neighbourhood, he will take measures to have the explosives removed?

Mr. SHORTT

Explosives are only stored at police stations until the Assistant Director of Ordnance Stores has been communicated with and the explosives removed. At Lavender Hill a single hand grenade which had been found at the old bombing school, Clapham Common, is waiting such removal.