19. Miss Rathboneasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether the investigating committee into mui-tsai in Hong Kong and elsewhere has yet reported; and, if so, when its report will be published?
§ Mr. Ormsby-GoreThe Commission has just signed its report—I understand last Saturday. The report has now been sent to the printers, and I propose that it shall be published here and in Hong Kong and Malaya on 1st March.
Miss RathboneWhile thanking the right hon. Gentleman for his reply, may 924 I hope that the evidence, or at any rate such portions of it as are not confidential, will be published?
§ Mr. Ormsby-GoreI am making arrangements for all the evidence, other than the evidence which witnesses asked should be treated as confidential, to be made available to people who wish to have copies of it, but not for its publication in the report, because that report is already likely to run to 350 closely-printed pages.