§ Mr. KINGasked the Home Secretary whether he will state the names, ages, periods of service, and duties of the two Assistant-Commissioners of Police for whose salaries £1,200 is provided in the Estimates, Class 3, Vote 7, Sub-head A?
§ Sir G. CAVEThe two Assistant-Commissioners whose salary is in part chargeable to the Civil Service Estimates are: (1) Mr. Basil Thomson (born in 1861), who was appointed to be in charge of criminal investigation in June, 1913, and who has during the War been engaged on special war duties; (2) Mr. Frank Louis Dumbell Elliott (born in 1874), who was appointed in April, 1914, and whose duties include such questions as street traffic, motor car regulation, the control of public carriages and their drivers, street collections, public-house and licensing questions, and kindred matters.