§ Mr. Morganasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether, in view of the fact that the present condition of the West Indian Colonies is due in part to world economic conditions and the economic policy adopted in the Colonial Empire as a whole, adequate facilities can be given to the proposed Royal Commission to enable it to deal in general with such Colonial economic policy?
Mr. M. MacDonaldEvery facility will, of course, be given to the members of the proposed Royal Commission for the study of general Colonial economic policy so far as it affects the Colonies into whose affairs they are inquiring.
§ Sir T. Mooreasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he can provide a list of the committees and commissions which have investigated problems in the West Indies during the present century?
Mr. M. MacDonaldI doubt whether any useful purpose would be served by the compilation of a list of local or other committees or commissions of inquiry which have investigated a great variety of West Indian problems during the last 38 years. I shall, however, be glad to supply my hon. Friend, if he wishes, with a list of the more important commissions which have been sent to the West Indies from this country in recent years.
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