MR. ACLANDasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury, Whether his attention has been drawn to the concluding paragraphs of Part VII. of the Report of the Chief Registrar of Friendly Societies, 1883, page 20, with reference to the sale by sheets of the Abstract therein referred to; and, whether he is willing to take any, and, if so, what, steps to carry out the suggestion made in the concluding paragraph?
§ MR. HIBBERTThe paragraphs referred to relate to matters upon which the Treasury has for some time been in communication with the Chief Registrar, and we shall be glad if arrangements can be made to carry out his views.
MR. ACLANDasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury, Whether his attention has been drawn to Part XI. of the Report referred to in the preceding Question, which deals with the Independent Mutual Brethren Society; and, whether the Returns of that Society establishes its ability, as now re-organised, to discharge its present liabilities to its members?
§ MR. HIBBERTI have read the paragraphs of Mr. Ludlow's Report which refer to this Society, and have nothing to add to them. The Government is not responsible for the solvency of Friendly Societies; and my hon. Friend will hardly expect me to express an opinion on the subject.