§ Mr. GILLISasked the Home Secretary whether, in view of the opinion expressed by the Committee on the Employment of Women on Police Duties, that in thickly-populated areas where offences against the law relating to women and children are not infrequent, there is not only scope, but urgent need, for the employment of policewomen, and also of the fact that there is undoubted evidence that the conditions of streets in which the patrols have worked have greatly improved, he will very carefully consider the matter before deciding to adopt the recommendation of the Committee on National Expenditure to abolish women patrols?
§ Mr. SHORTTI would refer the hon. Member to the reply which I gave to a question on this subject yesterday.