§ 54. Mr. Alex Carlileasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether any guidelines or circulars have been issued by the Lord Chancellor's Department to magistrates or their clerks concerning bail terms for those arrested on miners' picket lines and charged with offences arising from the coal miners' dispute; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. MellorThe grant of bail and the nature of any conditions attached to bail are matters for the courts in the exercise of their discretion under the Bail Act 1976. Neither my noble Friend the Lord Chancellor nor we have issued any such guidance as the hon. Member has in mind.