§ MR. LAYLAND-BARRATT (Devonshire, Torquay)To ask the President of the Board of Trade whether the Departmental Committee on Ichthyological Research appointed last year has made any recommendations to the Board of Trade; and, if so, whether he is prepared to publish such recommendations before the discussion of the Estimates relating to the Committee; and whether he is prepared to publish the Report of the evidence already taken by the Committee; and whether he can furnish any information as to the reasons of the late Chairman of the Committee for resigning his position.
(Answer.) The Departmental Committee has not yet made any recommendations, and has not yet completed the taking of evidence. I see no grounds for departing from the usual practice of not publishing the evidence before it is completed. 1335 The late Chairman of the Committee, in announcing his resignation, did not make any statement of his reasons for resigning.—(Board of Trade.)