HC Deb 22 January 1948 vol 446 c59W
86. Mr. Wilson Harris

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will now advise some remission of the sentences of penal servitude imposed on a number of members of the Irish Republican Army in 1939.

Mr. Ede

These cases are reviewed from time to time in accordance with the practice in the cases of all persons sentenced to long terms of penal servitude, and I shall not fail to take into account anything which tells in favour of advancing the date of an individual prisoner's release on licence.