HC Deb 08 July 1930 vol 241 cc222-3
25. Mr. PURBRICK

asked the President of the Board of Trade if he will state the number of cases during the year 1929 in which an offence or offences against the Bankruptcy Laws have been brought to the notice of the Board of Trade; and in how many of such cases have prosecution proceedings been instituted?

Mr. W. GRAHAM

During 1929, 148 cases in which there were offences against the Bankruptcy Laws were brought to the notice of the Board of Trade, and in all those cases, 39 in number, in which the necessary Order of the Court concerned in the bankruptcy was made, prosecutions were instituted.

Major-General Sir ALFRED KNOX

Is not the Soviet Government of Russia the most fraudulent bankrupt?

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