HC Deb 09 April 1923 vol 162 cc864-5
52. Mr. HOGGE

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer the full composition of the Committee he proposes to set up to deal with the working of the recommendations of the Lytton Report and the terms of reference?

The FINANCIAL SECRETARY to the TREASURY (Major Boyd-Carpenter)

I am not yet in a position to add to the reply which my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer gave on the 27th March to the hon. and gallant Member for Newbury (Brigadier-General Brown).

Mr. HOGGE

May I ask the right hon. Gentleman when he is going to set up this Committee?

Mr. BALDWIN

As soon as possible.

Mr. PRINGLE

Is the right hon. Gentleman not aware that the inquiry which is to be undertaken by this Committee is a very large inquiry, and that it is most urgent that it should be undertaken at once?

Mr. BALDWIN

Arrangements are being made that it shall be undertaken at, once. It was impossible to do so during the Easter holiday.