Sir J. Griģģ:

An application for release from the Army for transfer to other employment of national importance can only be considered if it is forwarded by the Government Department concerned, in this case the Ministry of War Transport. I am sorry that in spite of my letter to him of 28th February the hon. Member has seen fit to put down his Question in the same misleading form as his original one. The Army had nothing directly to do with this man until 21st November, 1944, when he was released from Wandsworth prison after serving a sentence as a result of a civil conviction. His arrest in Greenwich Hospital was presumably connected with this conviction.