§ MR. S. GEDGE (Walsall)I beg to ask the First Lord of the Treasury to what member of the Government in this House Questions should be addressed with reference to the Lord Chancellor's exercise of patronage or other action for which, as a Minister of the Crown, he is responsible to this House?
§ THE FIRST LORD OF THE TREASURY (Mr. A. J. BALFOUR,) Manchester, E.Questions of this kind, if they are to be asked at all, should be addressed to me.
§ MR. GEDGEI did put this Question to my right honourable Friend in the first place, and at his request I addressed myself to the Home Secretary, who said that it was not in his Department.