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The Exchequer And Audit Department And The Official Secrets Act

Volume 176: debated on Wednesday 26 June 1907

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To ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether he will state what contravention of the Official Secrets Act necessitated the Comptroller and Auditor-General recently drawing the special attention of the members of his Department to certain office rules prohibiting information to the public press under pain of dismissal. (Answered by Mr. Runciman.) I am not aware that there was any contravention of the Official Secrets Act.