§ MR. RICHARDSON (Nottingham, S.)To ask the the President of the Board of Trade if he will make the scope of the proposed Committee to consider certain amendments of the Bankruptcy Laws sufficiently wide, so that the Committee may be able to consider, not merely the discharge of bankrupts, but also the conduct of a bankrupt not having kept books, the conduct of a bankrupt afterwards trading in the name of his wife or of some other person, he not being discharged; the relation of deeds of assignment to bankruptcy, including the abuse of deeds now frequently given to questionable advertising trustees, the desirability of a limitation of the power of a dissentient creditor to upset a deed by bankruptcy within three months, the desirability of giving creditors and trustees the right of an application to the registrar of a county court to sanction or restrain direction, and the desirability of trustees in all cases giving security to the local registrar.
(Answered by Mr. Lloyd-George.) The reference which has already been approved 1395 by the Board of Trade deals not merely with the discharge of bankrupts, but also with a considerable portion of the subjects mentioned in the hon. Member's Question. I cannot now add to the reference.