MR. HERBERT ROBERTS (Denbighshire, W.)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether his attention has been drawn to the unanimous recommendation of the Welsh Land Commissioners that portions of their Report should be translated into Welsh and published officially in that language; whether he has considered the suggestion of the Commissioners that the determination of the parts of the Report which it is most desirable to translate into Welsh should be left to a Committee of the Commission acting in conjunction with the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury; and whether, in view of the fact that without such a translation the Report cannot reach a large proportion of the Welsh population specially interested in it, he will take the necessary steps to provide the Welsh translation recommended?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT (Sir MATTHEW WHITE RIDLEY,) Lancashire, BlackpoolI am aware of the recommendation referred to by the hon. Member, and have had it under consideration. The cost of this Commission 857 has already been extremely heavy, and any proposals involving additional expenditure will have to be very carefully weighed. I am in communication, however, with the chairman of the Commission as to the nature and bulk of the extracts which the Commission thought might with advantage be translated; and when I have obtained this information from him, I will communicate again with the Treasury.