§ 28. Lieut.-Colonel Sir SAMUEL HOAREasked who are the members of the Committee appointed to determine the relations between the Consular and Diplomatic Services and the Department of Oversea Trade and what are their terms of reference?
§ The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Mr. Cecil Harmsworth)The Committee appointed by the War Cabinet has the following terms of reference:
To examine the question of Government machinery for dealing with trade and and commerce.
§ The following arc the names of the members of the Committee:
- Viscount Cave, Chairman.
- Sir Horace C. Munro, K.C.B.
- Mr. F. Dudley Docker, C.B.
- Mr. Kenneth Lee.
§ Sir S. HOAREWill the hon. Gentleman consider the advisability of adding to the Committee a representative of the Foreign Office to ensure that the Foreign Office point of view, as apart from the commercial point of view, shall be adequately considered?
§ Mr. HARMSWORTHI am answering this question for my hon. Friend the Director of the Department of Oversea Trade; perhaps any further question might be put to him.