HC Deb 14 March 1859 vol 153 c92
SIR JOHN PAKINGTON

Sir, in consequence of the statement made by the noble Lord the Member for Sandwich (Lord C. Paget) on Friday evening, to the effect that within the last eleven years, out of the money voted from time to time by this House for the expense of the dockyards, no less than £5,000,000 has been either unaccounted for or devoted to what the noble Lord termed reckless alterations, I wish to give notice that in the course of a day or two it is my intention to lay upon the Table, together with those Reports of Committees which I have already promised, a full statement of the mode in which the monies voted by this House, during these eleven years, have been appropriated. It is also my intention that that statement shall be given in as much detail as it is in the power of the Department of the Surveyor of the Navy to supply it.