§ Mr. JOYNSON-HICKSasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he is aware that a minority of the Royal Commission on the Church in Wales 1175 have objected and still object to the separate presentation to Parliament of two selected volumes of the evidence taken by the Commission without the third volume which contains the evidence of the four Welsh Bishops, and which volume is already in print; and whether, in view of this objection on the part of the minority, he proposes to advise His Majesty to issue His Royal Consent for the separate presentation of such mutilated evidence to Parliament?
§ Mr. HERBERT SAMUELAs no interim Report has been received from the Royal Commission the question of tendering advice to His Majesty on this point has not arisen.
Mr. JOYN SON -HICKSWill it be necessary before the Report is presented to Parliament for the right hon. Gentleman to advise His Majesty on the point?
§ Mr. HERBERT SAMUELI am not aware whether any such Report is to be presented. As I have said in a previous answer, if a Royal Commission presents a Report, or an interim Report, that Report has to be presented to the King, and the Secretary of State is the adviser of his Majesty as to the presentation of the Report to Parliament.
§ Mr. JOYNSON-HICKSIs not the publication of the evidence in the nature of an interim Report, and must not that receive the sanction of His Majesty?
§ Mr. HERBERT SAMUELNo evidence can be presented except in connection with a Report or interim Report.
§ Mr. REESMay I ask whether the hon. Gentleman will repeat his first answer, which was not heard by those of us who are far from the Throne of Grace?
§ Mr. SPEAKERThere are over 70 questions on the Paper. We cannot have the answers repeated without detriment to the chances of some Members getting their answers.