§ MR. SWIFT MACNEILLI beg to ask Mr. Attorney General whether there is any, and, if so, what precedence for the transaction of the business of the Foreign Office in the absence of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs by a Minister who is not one of Her Majesty's principal Secretaries of State?
§ THE FIRST LORD OF THE TREASURYI can only refer the hon. Member to the answer given to a similar Question on the 24th March.
§ MR. SWIFT MACNEILLIs the right hon. Gentleman aware that that answer was that Lord Salisbury was ill?
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