§ Mr. GRANTasked the President of the Board of Education whether he will give instructions that a Report shall be pre- 2085W pared by the Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum, to be laid upon the Table of the House, which shall supply information up to date as completely as that contained in the Report presented to Parliament in 1912 [Cd. 6301], and, in addition, equally adequate information of the meetings and recommendations of the Advisory Committee of the Museum and of the action taken on the recommendations of several Departmental Committees appointed from time to time to consider the administration of the Circulation Department of the Victoria and Albert Museum?
§ Mr. FISHERThe publication of the annual reports of the Victoria and Albert Museum was suspended during the War, but was resumed in 1919 when the Report for 1916 was issued. The Report for 1917 was issued in 1920, and Reports for later years will be issued as soon as the pressure of other printing arrears permits. It is true that the Reports for 1916 and 1917 are less full than that for 1911; but full accounts of the Museum acquisitions are given in the "Annual Review of Principal Acquisitions." For reasons of economy it is undesirable to duplicate the information given in these publications. The Advisory Council of the Museum was established to advise the Board on matters relating to the Museum, and I cannot undertake to publish its reports. There has been no Departmental Committee appointed in recent years to consider the administration of the Circulation Department of the Museum.