MR. G. C. T. BARTLEY (Islington, N.)I beg to ask the First Lord of the Treasury whether be can now say when the proposed inquiry into the procedure on election petitions will take place?
THE FIRST LORD OF THE TREASURYIn answer to my hon. Friend, I have to say that I think there should be a Select Committee appointed to consider the questions to which, he refers. But the terms of reference cannot be worded as my hon. Friend seems to suggest. They ought, I think, to be strictly confined to the method of inquiry.