§ MR. NORMAN (Wolverhampton, S.)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the Report of the Inter-Departmental Committee now inquiring into the Consular Service will be published.
THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Lord CRAN-BORNE, Rochester)The statement which I made on May 29th was that the whole question of the constitution and management of the Consular Service is at present under the consideration of the Foreign Office in communication with the Treasury and Board of Trade, but I am not yet able to say whether the result will be a formal Report, nor, if so, whether this will be published.