§ Viscount CASTLEREAGHasked the Prime Minister whether his attention has been,drawn to the regulations issued by Local Government Board, in which the Board intimate generally that in future, unless very special grounds are shown, they will not be prepared to sanction the appointment to any office, in respect of which their sanction may be requested, of any person who is or has been within twelve months a member of the council making the appointment; and whether he will consider the propriety of adopting a similar policy in future public appointments?
§ The PRIME MINISTERI must refer the Noble Lord to the answer which I gave yesterday to the hon. Member for Bow and Bromley.
§ Viscount HELMSLEYWill the right hon. Gentleman say in what he compares the two cases which are not analogous?
§ The PRIME MINISTERThat is a matter for argument.