45. Captain A. EVANSasked the Prime Minister if the Committee of Imperial Defence has yet reported on the suggested setting up of a Ministry of Defence and the institution of a joint staff college; and whether he is yet in a position to make a statement on this matter
§ The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Baldwin)I would refer my hon. and gallant Friend to the answer which I gave on the 3rd March to a question by the hon. Member for Orkney and Shetland, from which he will see that the Report of the Sub-Committee of the Committee of 2058 Imperial Defence, under the chairmanship of Lord Salisbury, which inquired into this question in 1023. was presented to Parliament (Cmd. 2029).