§ MR. ERNEST SPENCER (West Bromwich)I beg to ask the President of the Board of Trade when he will be able to lay upon the Table his promised Memorandum on the functions and powers of the Labour Bureau, or as it is now 339 termed the Labour Department, of the Board of Trade, and the mimes and addresses of the newly appointed Local Labour Correspondents; and whether he will also give, where possible, the politics of the latter?
§ MR. MUNDELLAThe Return was ordered and presented on the 28th ultimo. I hope it will be circulated in a day or two; I have made no inquiry into the politics of the persons named in the Memorandum, and I have no intention of doing so.
§ MR. E. SPENCERWould the right hon. Gentleman have any more difficulty in doing that than the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster found in the case of the Lancashire Magistrates?
§ MR. BARTLEYIs not the correspondent at Sheffield the right hon. Gentleman's chief organiser in that district?
§ MR. MUNDELLANo, Sir.