ARMY—"GENERAL MONTHLY RETURN."—QUESTION.

HC Deb 04 May 1877 vol 234 cc317-8

SIR ALEXANDER GORDON

asked the Secretary of State for War, Whether he will lay upon the Table of the House, for the use of Members in the Library, a Copy of the " General Monthly Return of the British Army," which is printed every month at the War Office for the use of Government?

MR. GATHORNE HARDY,

in reply, said, he would remind the hon. and gallant Gentleman that the Return referred to had always been regarded as a Departmental document. There was, however, nothing secret in it, and he saw no objection to a copy being left in the Library for the use of Members.