asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the Dominions have been released from the obligations of the most-favoured-nation treaties to which they were parties, either in accordance with the practice in use before 1880 or by their acceding to such treaties, in accordance with the request, that they may be so released made at the Imperial Conference of 1911?

I have been asked to reply. In accordance with the Resolution of the Imperial Conference, 1911, to which my hon. and gallant Friend refers, negotiations were opened with the Foreign Governments concerned. In a number of cases, supplementary agreements have been concluded under which the Dominions are enabled to withdraw from the Treaties in question if they so desire.