§ Mr. Stonehouseasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department why verbal statements composed by the police after interviewing suspects of criminal offences are not shown to those suspects to be signed by those suspects before being produced as alleged evidence in courts of law.
§ Mr. Roy JenkinsThere is no requirement in the Judges' Rules for this to be done. If the accused disputes a police officer's statement recording what took place at an interview it is of course open to him to say so in court.
§ Mr. Stonehouseasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will set up a public inquiry into the use of verbal statements by the police in evidence at court hearings.
§ Mr. Roy JenkinsNo.