§ MR. EDMUND ROBERTSON (Dundee)I beg to ask the First Lord of the Treasury whether the Treasury Minute regulating the conduct of the Civil Service in reference to political controversies applies to the person holding the post of Military Secretary at the War Office; and whether, as the Minute does not appear to have been laid upon the Table of the House, he will consent to its being published as a Parliamentary Paper.
§ MR. A. J. BALFOURThe Treasury Minute to which the hon. Gentleman refers no doubt does apply to the Military Secretary of the War Office. The Minute is already on the Table of the House.
§ MR. EDMUND ROBERTSONThe officials in the Library tell me there is no such Paper. Seeing that the Minute is being constantly disregarded, will the right hon. Gentleman have it issued again?
§ MR. A. J. BALFOURI had a copy of it in the form of a Parliamentary Paper in my hands not two hours ago.
§ MR. EDMUND ROBERTSONNot here.
§ MR. A. J. BALFOURNo, in Downing Street.