§ Sir HAROLD ELVERSTONasked the President of the Board of Trade whether the following insurance companies: Aldwych, 82, Cheapside, Anchor Fire, 7, Longcauseway, Peterborough, British Commercial, 16, Bedford Chambers, Covent Garden, W.C., British Fire, 46, Queen Victoria Street, E.C., British Citizens, 43, London Wall, E.C., Criterion, Glasgow, Imperial Crown, 270, Corporation Street, Birmingham, Lanarkshire, 29, Waterloo Street, Glasgow, Lancashire and General, 38, Church Street, Liverpool, Regal, 59, Chancery Lane, W.C., Southwark, Cheapside, E.C., and South-East Lancashire, 20, Clegg Street, Oldham, have complied with the requirements of Section 7 of the Assurance Companies Act, 1909, as regards the depositing of an annual statement showing the business transacted; if the statements have been deposited, why are they not included in Part B of the annual Return; and, if the statements have not been deposited, will he see that they are sent in during the current year?
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Mr. BUXTONThe Assurance Companies Act, 1909, does not apply to the Aldwych or to the Southwark Insurance Companies, which only carry on reinsurance business. The Imperial Crown Insurance Company, Limited, has deposited the statements required by Section 7 of the Act for the years 1911 and 1912, but the Board of Trade are still in communication with that company with reference to the statement for the year 1910. My hon. Friend is mistaken in thinking that the statements of the Anchor Insurance and Investment Corporation, the British Commercial Fire Insurance Company, Limited, the Criterion Assurance Corporation, Limited, and the Lanarkshire Insurance
Company, Limited, have not been published in Part B of the Annual Return for 1912. The statements of the other companies referred to in the question were not published because they were not deposited, and with one exception were not due, before the end of the year 1912. They have all been deposited now.