HC Deb 17 February 1873 vol 214 cc544-5
MR. GATHORNE HARDY

asked the Secretary of State for War, Whether Oxford or its neighbourhood has been definitively fixed upon as a site for a Military centre; and, if so, what place has been selected; and is there any objection to produce the Report or Reports upon which such selection is founded?

MR. CARDWELL

Oxford is recommended as the site for a Brigade Depot for reasons which will be found in the final Report of General M'Dougall's Committee, which I am about to lay upon the Table. Its definitive adoption is dependent upon a suitable piece of ground being available on satisfactory terms, and the Department is at present in communication with the local authorities with respect to a site at Ballingtoft Farm, about 2½ miles S.E. from Oxford. If this site is adopted there will be no objection to lay upon the Table the Report of the General Officer, Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar, on the subject.