MR. GIBSON BOWLES (Lynn Regis)I beg to ask Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he has taken or proposes to take any, and, if so, what steps to carry out the recommendation of the Public Accounts Committee made in consequence of the remission of death duties by the Treasury on property to the value of £213,000 in this country passing at the death of the late Emperor of Russia, that, whenever a dispensing power is exercised by or with the sanction of the Treasury involving any important principle or substantial amount of money, a statement of the fact should be presented for the information of and, where necessary, for ratification by Parliament?
§ THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUERThe views of the Treasury on this subject have been embodied in a minute which will be submitted to the Public Accounts Committee in due course, and will, no doubt, be brought by them before the notice of the House.