§ SIR WILLIAM ANSON (Oxford University)I beg to ask the President of the Board of Education whether he will lay upon the Table of the House the Report of the Departmental Committee on the organisation and arrangement of the Victoria and Albert Museum, and the evidence and Memoranda on which that Report is based.
§ THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION (Mr. RUNCIMAN,) DewsburyI am arranging for the Report of the Committee to be presented to Parliament. As foreshadowed in the reply I gave to the hon. Baronet on 12th May, no formal evidence has been taken by them, but full information as to their proceedings will be found in the Report when issued. I may mention that much assistance was derived by the Committee, as shown in their Report, from the very full Report of the Select Committee on Museums and the Science and Art Department which sat in 1897–8.
§ SIR WILLIAM ANSONWas not the Report largely based on Memoranda furnished from time to time by the inquiry, and could not those Memoranda be laid before the House?
§ MR. RUNCIMANreplied that he had not seen the whole of the documents, but he would look into the matter.