The document is a debate in the House of Commons which was recorded in Hansard; it was recorded on June 19, 1960. This was three years after the Wolfenden Report was published. He documented the oral debate of MP Kenneth Robinson, who represented the St Pancras North borough constituency. He had raised the debate on the Wolfenden Committee, their findings on how the law conflicted between the private and public lives of homosexuals and what they had proposed to the House of Commons as an alternative solution to the law on homosexuality. The committee had been established by David Maxwell-Fyfe, Home Secretary in 1954, who appointed the Departmental Committee on Homosexual Offenses and Prostitution under Sir John Wolfenden. The committee had published the report of the Departmental Committee on Homosexual Offenses and Prostitution, also known as the Wolfenden Report, and was the first such report to help the government compromise on actions against homosexuals and prostitutes provided for by law. After documenting and researching numerous homosexual trials that were conducted, as well as first-hand interviews with homosexuals, here is what the Wolfenden Committee recommended in order to combat discrimination of homosexuals by the public and by the law. The Wolfenden Report was carried out following an increase in arrests and convictions of homosexuals at the end of World War II, some of them quite controversial. An example would be the trials of two British spies in 1951, Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean, as it was American security agencies who put heavy pressure on their British counterparts to eliminate known or suspected homosexuals... middle of paper. .....n the court case that ended the legal persecution of homosexuals. " Www.thisislondon.co.uk. ES London Limited, July 14, 2007. Web. February 13, 2012. .Sandbrook, Dominic. White Heat. London: Little, Brown, 2006. Print. “Taking Liberties – Featured Articles – Report Wolfenden. » THE BRITISH LIBRARY – The World's Knowledge, November 19, 2008. Web, February 11, 2012. Weeks, Jeffrey. Politics in Britain from the 19th century to the present. London: Quartet, 1990. Print. Wildeblood, Peter Against. the Law New York: J. Messner, 1959. Print. Wolfenden, John Turning Points London: Bodley Head., 1976. 141-42..