HC Deb 26 January 1949 vol 460 c135W
87. Mr. Hale

asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he is prepared to appoint a departmental committee to consider the French system of colonial parliamentary representation, with a view to formulating proposals for an extension of representative government in the British Colonial territories.

Mr. Creech Jones

This matter has often been considered but no such arrangement has seemed practicable. I do not think a departmental committee is necessary.