HC Deb 09 July 1868 vol 193 cc909-10
CAPTAIN VIVIAN

said, he would beg to ask the Secretary of State for War, Whether he will lay upon the Table of the House Copies of Captain Galton's Memorandum on the Draft Regulations of the Control scheme, with the Reply by the Controller in Chief; and of the Draft Regulations for an independent and efficient audit of Military Expenditures, as prepared by the Controller in Chief?

SIR JOHN PAKINGTON

said, in answer to the Question of his lion, and gallant Friend, he had to state that it was true Captain Gallon, the Assistant Under Secretary in the War Office, had written a Memorandum on the Draft Regulations of the Control scheme, and that Sir Henry Storks, the Controller in Chief, had written an answer to that Memorandum. Both the Memorandum and the answer referred to I the first Copy of the Draft Regulations, which had been superseded by the Regulations on the table; and it would conduce to no good end to lay on the table either the Memorandum or the answer; therefore, as at present advised, he must decline to produce those Papers. With reference to the latter part of the Question which referred to Regulations for an independent and efficient audit of Military Expenditures he had laid those Regulations on the table some time since; and they were referred to the Committee on Public Accounts. Whether they had been ordered to be printed he could not say.

MR. CHILDERS

said, they had been ordered to be printed. The Paper purporting to be an answer to the Memorandum, however, did not appear to be included in the Papers.

SIR JOHN PAKINGTON

said, he was not aware that any of the Papers were wanting. He would, however, make inquiry.