HC Deb 20 February 1908 vol 184 c1017
MR. MITCHELL-THOMSON (Lanarkshire, N. W.)

I beg to ask the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies when the results of the inquiry of the Departmental Committee on Cable Communications in the West Indies will be published.

MR. CHURCHILL

The recommendations of the Inter-Departmental Committee on Telegraphic Communication in the West Indies are under consideration, and the Secretary of State cannot at present make any statement or say whether papers can be laid before Parliament on the subject.

In reply to a further Question by the hon. Member—

MR. CHURCHILL

said the Report had been presented to the Secretary of State, and a copy of it had been published in one of the Colonies.

MR. MITCHELL-THOMSON

Will the Government consider the propriety of publishing it?

MR. CHURCHILL

No doubt that will eventually be done.