Powers of the Director of the National Gallery.

HC Deb 21 May 1906 vol 157 cc921-2

MR. HORNIMAN (Chelsea)

To ask the Prime Minister, whether the post of director of the National Gallery is †(4)Debates, cxxii., 647 filled; and whether the holder of this office will in future be possessed of larger powers, so that pictures of importance may be purchased with less delay, and the danger of the prices being enhanced by their passing through the hands of intermediaries diminished.

(Answered by Sir H. Campbell-Bannerman.) No public announcement can yet be made on the subject of the directorship of the National Gallery, but I hope shortly to be in a position to supply the information asked for by my hon. friend.