§ Mr. Arthur Lewisasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, in view of the growing practice of the police in general and the Metropolitan Police in particular of giving radio and television broadcasts and reports concerning persons and cases where prosecutions are envisaged and in some instances contravening the rules of natural justice, whether he will introduce legislation to stop these practices.
§ Mr. MayhewThe police are, like anyone else, subject to the law on contempt, which prohibits the publication or broadcast of material having a tendency to interfere with the course of justice in particular legal proceedings which are pending at the time, and they will continue to be so subject under the proposals contained in the Government's Contempt of Court Bill.