§ Brigadier-General CROFTasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Munitions whether Mr. Hankinson, the late superintendent of the Archives Registry, was, prior to the inception of that Department, entrusted with the task of making an inventory and approximate calculation as to the character and probable bulk of the records and papers of all departments and sections of the Ministry of Munitions which were likely eventually to be deposited with the Archives Registry; whether Mr. Hankinson conducted these investigations in a satisfactory manner; whether he afterwards advised the Archives Committee of the Ministry of Munitions in regard to these matters; and whether, seeing that no reflection is cast either upon Mr. Hankinson's capacity or character, the Archives Registry can have the benefit of his further services in the post from which he has been dismissed?
Mr. HOPEThe answer to the first three parts of the question is in the affirmative. For reasons already given the reply to the last part of the question is in the negative.