SIR HOWARD VINCENTTo ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he will state the names of the members of the Committee now inquiring into the Consular Service, and why the distribution of the Service is not included in the terms of reference.
(Answered by Lord Cranborne.) I have already stated to the House that the inquiry is a Departmental inquiry, and that, according to the practice in such cases, it would certainly be impossible to promise the publication of the Report until the Secretary of State shall have had an opportunity of considering it. The question of giving the terms of the reference upon which the Report will be founded seems naturally to depend upon what is ultimately decided in regard to the publication of the Report. The last Question I answered on the 10th instant.†