§ Colonel DAYasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether, in view of the financial loss incurred by persons obliged to serve as jurymen or jurywomen at Courts of Assize, he will consider legislation having as its object the payment of expenses to citizens so empanelled?
§ Captain HACKINGI have been asked to reply. Though my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary is not unsympathetic to the suggestion that jurors in criminal cases should be repaid the expenses incurred in the discharge of their duty, he is unable to propose legislation at the present time for putting this additional charge upon public funds.