HC Deb 14 August 1907 vol 180 c1307
MR. BOTTOMLEY

I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether, in accordance with the provisions of Subection 3 of Section 8 of the Public Trustee Act, the Treasury has required that the Public Trustee shall be a person already in the public service.

MR. RUNCIMAN

No, Sir.

MR. BOTTOMLEY

Am I to gather from that Answer that, inasmuch as the Treasury have not exercised their statutory powers of requiring that a Public Trustee should be a gentleman already in the public service, they agree with the view of the Lord Chancellor that the chairman of Allsopp's Brewery is the best qualified person available for that post?

MR. RUNCIMAN

I do not know exactly what the view of the Lord Chancellor is. I, at all events, concur in it.