29. Viscountess ASTORasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty whether a decision has yet been reached with regard to Item 52 of the 1922 Welfare Conference relative to the right of inventors to their own inventions, provided such inventions are of commercial value but of no use to the Board of Admiralty?
§ Mr. HODGESThis matter is still under the consideration of the Government. It is already the usual practice of the Admiralty to allow the inventor the rights in the invention if it evidently is of no use to the Government.
§ Major HORE-BELISHAWhy is this matter still under consideration, because 449 the same answer was given in June of last year?
§ Mr. HODGESI do not suppose that the facts have materially changed since June last.