§ GENERAL SIR GEORGE BALFOURasked the Secretary of State for War, If the cost of the Aldershot Camp can be rendered, in continuation of a Return 472 formerly made out; if so, what that cost, for the land, several buildings, and other purposes, has been; and, whether such an account can be rendered?
THE MARQUESS OF HARTINGTONSir, if the hon. and gallant Member will inquire at the War Office for any specific item of information on this subject, we will do our best to give it him; but the preparation of the Return to which he refers would involve so great an expenditure of labour and time that I am informed it could only be rendered by increasing the clerical Staff.
§ GENERAL SIR GEORGE BALFOURasked, whether the last Return was not printed on half a page of foolscap?
THE MARQUESS OF HARTINGTONYes; Sir; the Return is not at all a voluminous one; but it would require the examination of an enormous mass of documents, although the result does not appear very large.