§ MR. WOOTTON ISAACSON (Tower Hamlets, Stepney)asked the Secretary of State for War, Whether the Government will make it an absolute Rule that, when contractors and others deliver goods according to tender, and those goods are found not equal to sample, the names of the said contractors and others shall be struck off the list of those to whom tenders are sent?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE (Mr. E. STANHOPE) (Lincolnshire, Horncastle)It is seldom that each and every article of a contract is sent is up to the standard. Looking to the necessity of insuring ample competition, it is not possible to go beyond the Rule. I have already stated that contractors who persistently disregard the standard will be excluded from the list.