HC Deb 30 January 1958 vol 581 cc97-8W
79. Mr. Elwyn Jones

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps his Department have taken to disseminate as widely as possible the texts of the Geneva Conventions, 1949.

Mr. R. A. Butler

The texts of these Conventions were set out in the Schedules to the Geneva Conventions Act which was passed by Parliament in the last Session, and have, therefore, been widely distributed in this form. My Department and other interested Departments are taking steps to bring the requirements of the Conventions to the notice of those authorities to whom they are of special concern.

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