The following question stood on the Order Paper in the name of Sir LESLIE SCOTT:207710. To ask the President of the Board of Trade whether he has, since the question put to him by the hon. Member for Edge Hill on the 15th of December last, made a further investigation into the truth of the allegations referred to in that question, which had been made at an inquest upon the death by typhoid of one of the crew of the Leyland liner "Delilian," that the meat and water were tainted, and that six of the crew had been taken ill; whether the "Delilian" has since that date returned to this country; and whether he is now in a position to make a statement on the matter?
§ Mr. HAYESOn a point of Order. As a specific reference is made in this question to a question put by me in December last, am I in order in asking that the President of the Board of Trade should be allowed to give his answer?
§ Mr. SPEAKERI am afraid I have no power in the matter. Perhaps the hon. and learned Member for the Exchange Division (Sir L. Scott) will be hero before the end of Questions.