HC Deb 22 August 1893 vol 16 cc752-3
SIR E. HILL (Bristol, S.)

I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he will cause to be printed in the Treaty Series of Foreign Office Papers the Treaties of Commerce and Navigation now in force between Great Britain and the principal European and American countries; and whether he will lay upon the Table of the House the Commercial Agreement or Treaty recently concluded with Spain, which it is understood has been presented to the Spanish Cortes?

THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Sir E. GREY, Northumberland, Berwick)

The old Treaties of Commerce and Navigation have already been laid before Parliament; they can be obtained separately as Parliamentary Papers, and they are all published and indexed in Hertslet's Treaties. Under these circumstances, the heavy expense of reprinting the Treaties could not ho justified. Any new Treaties which may be concluded will be presented in due course in the Treaty Series. The Provisional Agreement with Spain, which has, however, not yet been ratified by the Cortes, will be laid.