§ 77. Mr. GINNELLasked the Attorney-General whether the Director of Public Prosecutions has yet seen the first Report of the liquidator of the Law, Car, and General Insurance Corporation; what its date is; and why he took no action on the matters disclosed therein when his attention was directed to them in the autumn of 1910?
§ The ATTORNEY-GENERAL (Sir Rufus Isaacs)I have caused inquiry to be made and I am informed that the liquidator of this company has never made any report upon its affairs, and that, as his appointment only dated from the 8th December, 1910, he can have made no report in the autumn of that year. It is right I should add, that I am informed certain conclusions to which the Official Receiver came with regard to the conduct of some of the directors in the autumn of 1911 have been materially modified in their favour, as the result of certain further facts which have more recently come to his notice.
§ Mr. GINNELLDoes the Director of Public Prosecutions deny that he received at his office notice of a criminal character in reference to this business in the autumn of 1910?
§ Sir RUFUS ISAACSI am not aware. If the hon. Gentleman will put down a question I will inquire.