HC Deb 21 February 1905 vol 141 c780
MR. AUSTIN TAYLOR (Liverpool, E. Toxteth)

I beg to ask the First Lord of the Treasury whether he can state when the Royal Commission on Ecclesiastical Disorders will issue a Report.

THE PRIME MINISTER AND FIRST LORD or THE TREASURY (Mr. A. J. BALFOUR, Manchester, E.)

In answer to my hon. friend, I have to say that I have communicated with the chairman of the Commission, and he hopes that the Report will be in the hands of the public before the end of the year. There will be no interim Report.

MR. AUSTIN TAYLOR

Will it be issued before the general election?

MR. A. J. BALFOUR

I neither know when the Report will be out nor when the general election will take place. It is therefore extremely difficult to give a specific Answer, and I am not in a position to give it.