MARQUESS of TULLIBARDINEasked the President of the Board of Agriculture whether members of the Royal Engineers attached to the Board for survey duty in connection with the Ordnance Survey are being used for land valuers' work; and, if so, to what Department will their services be charged?
§ Mr. RUNCIMANRoyal Engineers on the Ordnance Survey are not being employed on the valuation of land; but, for the assistance of the Board of Inland Revenue, the normal revision of the Ordnance Survey maps is being expedited and the order of revision rearranged so as to provide for the earlier revision of the maps in which changes have been specially numerous.
MARQUESS of TULLIBARDINEAm I to understand that no officer of the Royal Engineers has been employed at all on the land valuers' work?
§ Mr. RUNCIMANNo Royal Engineer in connection with the Ordnance Survey.
§ Mr. RUNCIMANThe Noble Lord had better address his question to the Secretary of State for War. I am not responsible for war.
MARQUESS of TULLIBARDINEasked the Secretary to the Treasury whether those members of the public who have been put to expense in preparing Form IV. will be indemnified for such expense, which was caused by an illegal act on the part of the Treasury?
§ Mr. HAROLD SMITHasked whether the Government proposed to reimburse those who have been put to expense in 1377 obtaining professional assistance in order to answer the questions illegally insisted on by the Commissioners an the Revenue papers commonly known as Form IV. and Form VIII.?
§ Mr. HAROLD SMITHMay I ask whether, in view of this decision there will be any guarantee that similar illegalities and tyrannies will not be perpetrated by the Insurance Commissioners?
§ Mr. BOTTOMLEYMay I ask whether there is any redress against those legal advisers who have allowed their clients to incur expense in filling up the forms which they knew, or ought to have known, were illegal?