§ SIR GEORGE CAMPBELLasked Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, If he can now state the result of his consideration of the Question of general rules regarding the acceptance of paid employments ouside their office duties by public servants already remunerated by salary, which gives the State a claim to their whole powers, and that in respect not only to Treasury Officers, but to all Civil Servants, and to Judicial Functionaries, such as the County Court Judge in county Durham, who was alleged to have accepted a paid office in connection with a Committee of Mines and Mineowners in the same county?
THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER (Mr. CHTLDERS)Sir, in reply to my hon. Friend, I have to say that Her Majesty's Government have had this subject under their consideration, but that it involves far greater difficulties than at first sight I anticipated when I replied to my hon. Friend's former Question, and that we have not yet arrived at any decision covering the whole of the Public Service. I had not heard of the case of the County Court Judge in the County of Durham; but I have ascertained from the Lord Chancellor that he is making inquiries on the subject.