§ MR. WESTasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, When he will lay before the House the result of his inquiry with regard to the estimated cost of public prosecutors proposed to be appointed?
MR. BRUCE, in reply, said, that the inquiry which had been instituted with regard to the estimated cost of the public prosecutors proposed to be appointed was a departmental one, which had been jointly conducted by officers of the Home Office and of the Treasury, and, as their Report was a confidential one, it could not be laid upon the Table of the House. The Public Prosecutors Bill stood upon the Paper as the first Order of the Day for next Wednesday, and when it came on the Government would be prepared to propose Amendments in it and to state what were the results of the inquiry in question.