§ Mr. HopeTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he will publish the Government's response to the second report of the Home Affairs Committee for Session 1998–99, on Freemasonry in Public Life (HC 467); and if he will make a statement. [133788]
§ Mr. Charles ClarkeThe Government's response is being published today as Command Paper, 4813, copies are being placed in the Library. The response will announce that the Home Office is consulting the Police Service about proposals for further measures aimed at ensuring that members of the public may, where appropriate, be able to discover whether individual police officers are members of the Freemasons.