§ MR. SERJEANT SIMONasked Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, Whether Her Majesty's Government place reliance upon the Report of Mr. Consul General Fawcett, their own Commissioner in the Rhodope Inquiry, which is identical with the Reports of the Commissioners of Prance, Austria, and Italy, to their respective Governments; and, if so, whether they intend to take any and what measures in consequence?
§ THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUERSir, Her Majesty's Government do place reliance on the Report of Mr. Consul General Fawcett, and in consequence they are considering proposals for the relief of the sufferers; and if they make these proposals to Parliament they will, of course, state the grounds on which they make them: but what I have already stated is this—that the absence of such agreement as would have been shown by a joint Report renders the question of political action one requiring great consideration. I never intended to say, in answer to a Question yesterday—as has been thought by some hon. Gentlemen—that we did not place reliance upon the Report of Mr. Fawcett.