§ Mr. HUNTasked the Secretary to the Treasury whether he is aware that the Clissold Building Society has issued a prospectus bearing the names of two gentlemen as directors described as being of the General Post Office and the War Office respectively; and, as these directors have permitted the names of the departments in which they are serving to be used for advertising purposes, whether the Lords of the Treasury will consider the advisability of prohibiting Civil servants of the Crown from using the address of a Government department for commercial or financial speculations?
Mr. McKINNON WOODI have been furnished with a copy of the prospectus in question. The reference made in it to the War Office and the General Post Office, is a matter for the consideration of the heads of those departments, in the light of the accepted principle that the connection of Civil servants with financial undertakings should be discouraged as much as possible. This principle is applied in departments as circumstances require by disciplinary action, and I do not think that any addition is called for to the existing regulations.