§ Mr. Emrys Hughesasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty why persons at Kingston Naval Detention Barracks are subject to solitary confinement from noon on Saturdays to 8.3o on Sunday mornings, and if he will issue instructions modifying or terminating this practice.
Mr. DugdaleThe rules and regulations for Naval Detention Quarters provide that after dinner on a Saturday men are to 193W have tasks in their rooms in order that certain of the staff may be given half a day off duty. I should add that the chaplain visits men under sentence on Saturday afternoons or evenings and after tea men who are entitled to do so may write letters or change their library books.