50. Mr. FREDERICK HALL (Dulwich)asked the Prime Minister if he will consider the advisability of constituting the Insurance Commissioners as an independent department, in order to divest their work as far as possible of political bias, and also to enable the Treasury to criticise the financial transactions of the Commissioners from a more impartial point of view?
§ The PRIME MINISTERIf the hon. Member's suggestion is that the Insurance Commissioners or the Treasury are actuated by a political bias in the performance of their duties under the Act, I must altogether repudiate it. As regards the rest of the question, I would refer the hon. Member to my reply to the hon. and learned Member for West St. Pancras, on the 14th of April last.