§ MR. WALKER (Leicestershire, Melton)To ask Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer whether his attention has been called to the fact that the stock created under the Irish Land Act of 1903 is commonly quoted in the Press as Irish Land Stock; and whether, seeing that an erroneous impression would appear, from the price at which the stock stands, to have been engendered thereby that its security has some relation to the value of Irish land, he will signify the desire of His Majesty's Treasury that this stock should, in accordance with the terms of this Act, be entitled Guaranteed 2¾ per cent. Stock.
(Answered by Mr. Asquith.) My hon. friend correctly states the statutory title of the stock. Writers in the Press presumably make use of the title which they find most convenient. They cannot be denied that freedom; but his Question will, perhaps, call attention to the more accurate description.