§ Colonel WEDGWOODasked the Home Secretary whether, in view of the sentences of flogging which have recently been imposed at the Sussex Assizes and elsewhere, he will permit Members of the House who are willing to do so to be present when such punishments are carried out?
§ Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKSNo, Sir. The Statutory Rules require the punishment to be carried out in the presence of the Governor and the medical officer. It would also be open to a member of the visiting committee to attend if he wished, and I see no necessity for the presence of any other person.