§ 80. Mr. Blackasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department to what extent it is the practice to obtain an undertaking from ministers of religion not to reveal anything that may be said to them in the course of their duty when they are given facilities for interviewing convicted prisoners in the condemned cell.
§ Major Lloyd-GeorgeIt is, of course, the recognised practice that ministers of religion should not reveal anything said to them by a prisoner under the seal of confession or in confidence. Moreover, all ministers whom I appoint to prisons sign an undertaking not to divulge, without the sanction of the Prison Commissioners, any information they obtain in the course of their duties.