§ MR. NORRIS (Tower Hamlets, Limehouse)asked the President of the Board of Trade, If he can state whether Mr. Giffen, a paid official of his Department, is the principal proprietor of a paper called The Board of Trade Journal; if the use of the name of a great public Department gives an official character to the paper; whether the name was authorised by the Board of Trade; and, if the paper in question is largely supported by Government advertisements?
§ THE PRESIDENT (Sir MICHAEL HICKS-BEACH) (Bristol, W.)The Board of Trade Journal is the property of the Government, like every other publication of the Government, and neither Mr. Giffen nor any other official has any proprietary interest in it of any kind. The Journal is edited by the Commercial Department of the Board of Trade, of which Department Mr. Giffen is the head, and in that capacity he is one of the officers responsible for its production. The profits of The Journal are received by the Treasury, and no Government advertisements appear in it.
§ MR. MUNDELLA (Sheffield, Brightside)asked, if it was not the case that 580 Mr. Giffen edited The Journal without the receipt of any salary?
§ SIR MICHAEL HICKS-BEACHCertainly. It is part of his official work.