§ MR. SWIFT MACNEILL (Donegal, S.)To ask the Secretary to the Treasury, whether, in view of the injury done to Government servants who have been compelled to retire from the Civil Service in consequence of false reports made in secret by superior officers under cover of confidential memoranda, His Majesty's Government will favourably consider the desirability of the creation of a board of appeal composed of three Privy Councillors, or other persons of suitable qualifications, so that public servants, having no remedy for redress in the Courts owing to the plea of privilege raised on behalf of the Crown, may be able to submit cases of alleged tyranny and oppression to an independent tribunal competent to examine witnesses upon oath.
(Answered by Mr. Hobhouse.) I see no necessity for the appointment of such a body.