§ SIR JOHN COLOMB (Tower Hamlets, Bow)I beg to ask the First Lord of the Treasury whether Her Majesty's Government, when considering the suggestion of the Royal Commission respecting the formation of a Naval and Military Council of Defence, will further take into consideration the opportunity afforded by the establishment of any such Council for providing in some form for the representation upon it of outlying portions of the Empire contributing to the maintenance of the regular Naval and Military Forces of the Crown?
§ *THE FIRST LORD OF THE TREASURY (Mr. W. H. SMITH,) Strand, WestminsterThe subject to which my hon. and gallant Friend refers will undoubtedly receive the consideration of Her Majesty's Government, but he will, I am sure, realise that it is surrounded with very great and serious difficulties.