§ Mr. W. J. Brownasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he is aware that the recommendation contained in paragraph 602 of the Tomlin Committee Report (1929–31), which allows for the attendance of an association representative at the hearing of a serious disciplinary charge against an officer, has not been adopted in the prisons' department; that this is the only department within the Civil Service which has failed to put this recommendation into effect; and whether he will give instructions that the recommended procedure will be put into effect in the prison service forthwith.
§ Mr. H. MorrisonI cannot accept the suggestion that rules applicable to the Civil Service generally are necessarily appropriate to disciplined services, such as the Prison Service. The practice in the Prison Service is that an accused officer can be represented by another member of the staff of the prison at which he is serving, who may, if the officer so desires, be the association representative at that prison.