MR. WALKERI beg to ask the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies whether his attention has boon called to the recommendations of Sir Augustus Hemming, ex-Governor of Jamaica, that there should be an inquiry into the management of the Crown Agents' office and the way in which the funds are expended, or that there should be laid before Parliament a Return showing the rates of salary and any other form of remuneration received by every member of the staff, together with a detailed and explanatory statement of accounts; and whether either of those proposals is now receiving favourable consideration.
§ MR. CHURCHILLThe work and organisation of the office of the Crown Agents for the Colonies has received constant and close attention from successive Secretaries of State, and two Parliamentary Papers on the subject were laid before Parliament in 1904. Lord Elgin does not as at present advised see sufficient occasion for a further inquiry, or for publishing a more detailed statement of accounts than that already published.