§ SIR HENRY TYLER (Great Yarmouth)I bag to ask the President of the Board of Trade whether he will take into consideration the question of providing reasonable accommodation for the numerous deputations having business at the Board of Trade whilst kept waiting for an audience, so as to prevent them from being detained in ill-ventilated passages, or on the staircase, as was the case with a deputation on the 2nd May, for about 20 minutes after the time appointed for their reception, such deputation having been composed of numerous Members of Parliament and others, assembled to discuss the question of the proposed bankruptcy legislation?
§ SIR M. HICKS BEACHI very much regret any inconvenience that may have been caused to any members of the deputation on the occasion referred to. It was due to the fact that the deputation which immediately preceded them detained me much longer than had been anticipated, so that the room ordinarily used for deputations to assemble in was not at their service.