Oral Answers to Questions — Public Appointments (Ministers' Recommendations)

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 6 November 1947.

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Photo of Sir Godfrey Nicholson Sir Godfrey Nicholson , Farnham 12:00, 6 November 1947

Is not the right hon. Gentleman aware that these are questions of opinion? [HON. MEMBERS: "No."] I am not engendering heat. Surely, if an appointment is made which the Government contend is done on merit but which in our opinion—I do not want to use an unparliamentary expression—is not on merit, those are questions of opinion, which cannot be put on paper.