§ SIR JOHN DORINGTON (Gloucestershire, Tewkesbury)To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he has considered the proposal made to him in a letter from the Standing Council of the Baronetage, dated 3rd February last, that a special body or Commission should be appointed to inquire into and report on the questions respecting which he had asked for information, and any other questions connected therewith; and if so, will he state what action he proposes to rake in the matter.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Akers-Douglas.) I have duly considered the proposal to which my hon. friend refers, out I doubt whether the question at issue calls for the appointment of a commission of inquiry such as is suggested. I am not in a position to state the advice which I shall have to give His Majesty the King as to the possibility of providing a remedy for the alleged wrongful assumption of baronetcies. I can only say that I have not yet seen any suitable proposal for an effectual remedy, and it may be feared that the remedy, if any, is by legislation.