§ 37. Mr. JOYNSON-HICKSasked the Prime Minister whether, having regard to the ever-increasing cost of the Civil Service in this country, he would consider the possibility of appointing a Royal Commission, to be composed exclusively of business men not conspicuously identified with any political party, to consider what economies can be made consistent with the continued efficiency of the service?
§ The PRIME MINISTERI fear I do not see my way to accede to the hon. Member's suggestion. I may remind him that in addition to the Royal Commission now inquiring into the Civil Service, a Select Committee of this House was appointed this year to examine such of the Estimates presented to the House as might seem fit to the Committee, and to report what, if any, economies consistent with the policy implied in those Estimates should be effected therein.