§ Sir A. Bossomasked the Under-Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations what consideration he has given to 48W the advisability of establishing a small permanent Commonwealth secretariat to carry on the interchange of information after the Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference called for 31st January, 1955.
§ Mr. Dodds-ParkerThe United Kingdom Government are always ready to develop the machinery for Commonwealth consultation. The existing arrangements for the interchange of information, however, are working satisfactorily, and I doubt whether there would be any general desire on the part of the Governments of other Member countries for the establishment of a permanent secretariat. I would remind my hon. Friend of the communiqué on this subject issued after the Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference in 1946. I have no reason to suppose that since then there has been any general change of view in in the direction of his proposal.