§ SIR SAVILE CROSSLEY (Suffolk, Lowestoft)asked the First Lord of the Treasury, Whether he will state what steps Her Majesty's Government propose taking, in order to carry out the recommendations of the Committee appointed by the Board of Trade to inquire into the complaints of damage alleged to have been inflicted on the British Drift Net Fisheries in the North Sea?
§ THE SECRETARY TO THE BOARD OF TRADE (Baron HENRY DE WORMS) (Liverpool, East Toxteth)Perhaps the hon. Baronet will allow me to answer the Question. I have to say that the Board of Trade will communicate with the Foreign Office with the view of their transmitting officially to the Belgian Government a copy of the Report. The Board of Trade hope that the Belgian Government may see fit to co-operate with Her Majesty's Government in order to give effect to the suggestions contained in it.
§ Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK (Norfolk, E.), having pointed out the importance of this matter being urged on as quickly as possible, inasmuch as, he said, these unfortunate outrages would recommence in about four mouths' time, asked, in the interests of the fishing industry, whether the hon. Gentleman understood that this was an affair of urgency?
§ BARON HENRY DE WORMSI hope the outrages will not be recommenced at the time my hon. Friend 706 specifies; but I can assure him that the Board of Trade are so fully alive to the importance of the subject that, in fact, they are already in communication with the Foreign Office with reference to it.