§ 47. Mr. PARKERasked the Lord President of the Council whether he is aware that the articles of association of the British Film Institute, a body in receipt of a grant from the Cinematograph Fund, provide that three out of nine members of the governing council should represent the British film trade, and that one of the remaining members, elected to represent public interests, is a director of a private film company named the Trading Corporation for Educational and General Services, Limited; and whether, in view of the undesirability that trade interests on the said council should be represented by more than three persons having commercial interests in the film trade, he will take steps to alter the composition of the council?
§ The TREASURER of the HOUSEHOLD (Sir George Penny)I have been asked to reply. As my right hon. Friend stated on the 5th May in answer to a question by my hon. Friend the Member for Leeds West (Mr. V. Adams) the work of the British Film Institute generally is under consideration, and he must await the results of the inquiries that are being made before expressing an opinion as to the desirability of an alteration in the composition of the governing body.