§ MR. CAMPBELL-BANNERMANI wish to take this opportunity of explaining and apologizing for a mistake into which I fell in answering a Question put to me in Committee this morning by my right hon. and gallant Friend opposite (Sir John Hay) in reference to the new Admiralty buildings. He asked me whether the Estimates for them would contain provisions for a house for the First Lord? I then said it was a question which ought rather to have been addressed to my right hon. Friend the First Commissioner of Works, and I have now to pay the penalty of having undertaken to answer for another Department. When I last saw the proposals they did contain a provision for such a house. Since then they have been more fully considered, and now it is not intended to include a house for the First Lord in the new building.
§ SIR JOHN HAYI will only say that while my hon. Friend makes this announcement I hope he still adheres to the excellent reason which he gave as to whether the First Lord should have a house—namely, that it was absolutely necessary in time of war.