§ Mr. MALLABY-DEELEYIs the Chancellor of the Exchequer prepared to appoint a Committee, consisting of Treasury officials, leading bankers, and other gentlemen conversant with finance, to advise and report as to whether a scheme can be advised for the consolidation into one stock, at a uniform rate of interest, of all the existing Government Stocks, namely, Consols, Irish Land Stock, the War Loan (to be provided for on 5th April), and a possible Naval Loan, with a view to greater convenience and at the same time towards raising the status and the value of the premier securities of Great Britain both at home and abroad?
§ Mr. HOBHOUSEMy right hon. Friend does not think that the appointment of such a Committee would serve the purpose anticipated by the hon. Member.