§ 68. Viscount SANDONasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether steps will be taken to make public money expended on a committee which either fails to make a report or does not make it in time to be of any value recoverable from the sources involved?
§ Mr. CHURCHILLNo, Sir.
§ Viscount SANDONIs then the £370 of public money spent on the Meston Committee to be absolutely wasted?
§ Mr. CHURCHILLIt is difficult enough to get Committees to give voluntary service in these times, and I think the public service would be exposed to great embarrassment if it were to happen that persons serving on those Committees might be charged a heavy sum.
§ Viscount SANDONIs there any object in a Committee starting if it does not finish?