§ MR. BENNETTTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs when it is 624 intended to lay Papers concerning the administration of the Congo State; and whether such Papers will include such portions of the evidence laid before the Congo Commission of Inquiry which may be in the hands of His Majesty's Government, the whole of which evidence has been suppressed by the Congo Government.
(Answered by Secretary Sir Edward Grey.) The laying of the Papers promised earlier in the session was deferred in the expectation that the Report of the Reforms Commission, or the announcement of the reforms consequent upon it, would be made public in April, in which case they would have been included in the Papers. As this expectation has not been realised, the Papers will now be laid as soon as possible The evidence which is in the possession of His Majesty's Government has already appeared in the Press, and it does not seem necessary to print it again for a Parliamentary Paper.