§ Viscount CURZONasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury in what Department of the Civil Service is Mr. E. Wise, who is reported to be in Genoa, employed; to what Vote is his salary charged; who is his official superior; what are his duties at Genoa; and was he a candidate for a directorship in the bank which Monsieur Krassin endeavoured to found in London?
Mr. YOUNGMr. Wise is a permanent civil servant attached to the Board of Trade, and his remuneration is borne in part by that Department and in part by the Ministry of Health, from which he is seconded. He is under the directions of the Secretary to the Board of Trade, and forms, with the latter, part of the official staff in attendance on Ministers at Genoa. Mr. Wise has not been at any time a candidate for a directorship in the undertaking referred to or in any other commercial undertaking.