§ MR. ELTON (Somerset, Wellington)asked the President of the Board of Trade, How long the present provisional arrangement, under which a sum of £8,000 per annum is allowed to the Chief Official Receiver in Bankruptcy, as an officer of the Board of Trade, to be expended by him as he may think fit on his personal staff, is to continue; and, whether he will take the necessary steps for bringing the Chief Official Receiver's Office under the immediate control of the Treasury and the Civil Service Commissioners, by placing it on the permanent establishment of the Civil Service?
§ THE PRESIDENT (Sir MICHAEL HICKS-BEACH) (Bristol, W.)The appointment of the Chief Official Receiver in Bankruptcy was originally made for a period of five years, which will expire during the present year. The whole arrangements of the Department are, however, at present under consideration; and I regret, therefore, that I am not in a position to give the hon. and learned Member any undertaking.