HC Deb 06 March 1952 vol 497 c75W
99. Mr. Dodds

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will consider setting up a committee of inquiry, as suggested in the Report of the Joint Committee on Psychiatry and the Law appointed by the British Medical Association and the Magistrates' Association, a copy of which has been sent to him, in respect to bringing the law relating to the maintenance, custody and welfare of illegitimate children more into line with current thought and practice.

Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe

I would refer to the reply given on 21st February to the hon. Member for Dagenham (Mr. Parker).