§ Mr. CLOUGHasked the Prime Minister whether the Lord Lieutenant of the West Riding is empowered to make appointments of the commission of the peace without first submitting the names to the other members of the advisory committee; and whether he will give a list of the gentlemen appointed to the commission of the peace in the West Riding during 1912 whose names were never considered by the advisory committee for the county?
§ The PRIME MINISTERIt is the Lord Chancellor's unvarying practice only to appoint magistrates whose names have been approved by the advisory committees. The last list for the West Riding was appointed in the belief that all the names had been duly considered by the committee, but I am informed that there has been a misapprehension, and that certain of the names did not in fact come before the committee. The Lord Chancellor is making further inquiries, and will communicate with the hon. Member.