§ MR. ANDERSON (Elgin and Nairn)asked the First Lord of the Treasury, When will the Report of the Scotch Fishery Board be laid upon the Table; 1743 and, will the Government undertake that the Civil Service Estimate for the expenses of the Scotch Fishery Board shall not be taken until the Report has been in the hands of Members a reasonable time?
§ THE LORD ADVOCATE (Mr. J. H. A. MACDONALD) (Edinburgh and St. Andrew's Universities)(who replied) said: This report has been delayed by the complication attending the statistics collected by the scientific staff in regard to the experiments relating to trawling. But it is hoped that the Report, which is now in the printer's hands, will be finally thrown off in a fortnight. Although Her Majesty's Government can give no pledge as to the time when the Civil Service Estimate for the Scottish Fishery Board will be taken, owing to the state of Public Business, it is hoped that it may be possible to delay it till after the Report has been in the hands of hon. Members a reasonable time.