Increase of Paid Consular Service.

HC Deb 24 July 1903 vol 126 cc227-8

SIR THOMAS DEWAR

To ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether it has yet been decided to increase the paid Consular service; And will he state how the number of paid Consuls compare with the services of the United States, France, and Germany.

(Answered by Lord Cranborne.) New posts are created from time to time where the interests of British trade render it desirable, but there is no present intention of increasing the paid Consular service.