§ 49. Mr. Parkinasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what further inquiries have been made by the Metropolitan Police with a view to prosecuting for living on immoral earnings the owner of the fiat in Queensway, let to a police witness in the Ward case at 33 guineas a week, since it proved impossible to relet at the same figure and was subsequently offered to the hon. Member for Paddington, North, at £20 per week.
§ Mr. BrookeA full inquiry was made into this matter when the hon. Member first drew my attention to it in August, 1963. The Commissioner of Police tells me that, taking into account all the various factors involved, including the rent charged for the property, which consisted of three flats, he then found no grounds for taking proceedings; no 157W further facts have since come to light which would cause him to alter that view.