§ MR. NICOLLsaid, he would beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury if, with the Return ordered for detailed Accounts of the Receipt and Expenditure for Navy, for Army—including Commissariat—and for Ordnance Services for the year, up to the 31st day of March, 1856, there will be any objection to include a detailed account of the nature and value of Public Stores in hand at that date; together with a Statement of the produce of Sales of condemned and surplus Stores during that year? He also wished to know whether 1972 the evidence taken before the Public Contracts Committee will be circulated among Members during the recess?
MR. WILSONsaid, the Return referred to by the hon. Member for Frome had been already prepared and laid upon the Table. A statement of the produce of condemned and surplus Stores appeared under the head of ''Old Stores" in every quarterly finance account. A detailed account of the nature and value of public Stores would be expensive and inconvenient, though certainly not impossible. The Report of the Public Contracts Committee, which was presented, would no doubt be printed and circulated during the recess.