Catalogue description Board of Enquiry Appointed by the Prime Minister to Investigate Certain Statements Affecting Civil Servants (Fisher Enquiry):Records

At the beginning of 1928 evidence given in the case of Ironmonger v Dyne, heard in the King's Bench Division of the High Court, suggested that three Foreign Office civil servants were, or had been, engaged in speculation in French francs.

On 1 February 1928 the Prime Minister appointed Sir Warren Fisher, Permanent Secretary to the Treasury, Sir Malcolm Ramsey, Comptroller and Auditor General and M L Gwyer, HM Procurator-General and Solicitor to the Treasury as a board to investigate the statements made in court. The board was to establish whether currency speculation had taken place, whether official knowledge had been used for private profit and whether such transactions, even if official knowledge had not been used, "were proper or becoming in the case of a Civil Servant". The board also sought to discover whether other civil servants had been involved in such speculation.