§ 110. Mr. GINNELLasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether the attention of the Committee on Economy was directed to the cost of the Local Government Board for England and Wales having been increased for the current year by £47,435, and of the Local Government Board for Ireland by £5,538; to the employment of nineteen inspectors for the inspection of 159 unions in Ireland, while seventeen inspectors are sufficient for 648 unions in England and Wales; and to the payment of first-class travelling expenses for all those gentlemen, while those whose money they receive travel third; and will he say what the committee recommended and the Government have decided with reference to each of those particulars, and the amount of saving to be effected in each in the current financial year?
§ Mr. McKENNAThe Retrenchment Committee have not yet concluded their inquiries into the various Civil Departments and I cannot anticipate their recommendations.