§ MR. SMEATONI beg to ask the Secretary of State for India, whether the evidence of the officials of the Government of India before the Decentralisation Commission is to be taken in camerâ; if so, for what reason, seeing that the evidence of the officials of the local governments has been taken in public; and whether this change of method has received his sanction.
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIA (Mr. MORLEY,) Montrose BurghsI am aware that a part of the evidence to be taken by the Decentralisation Committee will be given in private, being of a confidential nature. This has been arranged between the Chairman of the Commission and the Government of India, and I see no reason for objecting, if indeed, I have any power.