§ 26. Mr. TOUCHEasked the President of the Board of Trade the constitution 1499 and terms of reference of the Departmental Committee which is to consider the question of fraudulent share-pushing?
§ Mr. RUNCIMANI am taking the necessary steps with a view to setting up this Committee, and I will make a further statement as soon as possible.
§ Mr. LEWISWhen it comes to drafting the terms of reference to the committee, will the right hon. Gentleman consider the desirability of making them wide enough to include the question whether a charter should or should not be granted to one or more leading stock exchanges?
§ Mr. RUNCIMANThe terms of reference ought certainly to be wide, but whether it would be prudent to make them as wide as all that I am not prepared to say at present.