§ SIR JAMES JOICEY (Durham, Chester-le-Street)I beg to ask the First Lord of the Treasury whether he will consider the desirability of introducing legislation with the view of compelling all private banks to publish their balance sheets.
§ MR. A. J. BALFOURI do not see how you can distinguish between private banks and other private undertakings and if the accounts of the one were to be made public by law, I suppose the accounts of all private undertakings would have to be made public by law.