§ MR. HAROLD COXI beg to ask the First Lord of the Treasury whether, in the reference to the proposed Royal Commission on Canals, he will include an Instruction to the Commission to inquire into the canal systems of other countries, including India, with the object of ascertaining to what extent navigable canals pay a satisfactory return upon the capital invested in their construction.
§ MR. ASQUITH (for Sir H. CAMPBELL-BANNERMAN)I do not think such an instruction is desirable; the reference, which has been carefully settled, will give the Commission full discretion to take evidence upon the canal systems in other countries.