§ MR. STEWART MACLIVERasked the First Lord of the Admiralty, Whether, after the statement made on Thursday by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, showing an excess of £500,000 over the Estimates previously given to the House, a Parliamentary inquiry as to the financial affairs of the Admiralty should not be instituted?
§ THE FIRST LORD OF THE ADMIRALTY (Lord GEORGE HAMILTON)Sir, it is the intention of the Government to institute an inquiry into the excess of the expenditure at the Admiralty over the Vote of Credit, and the exact shape and scope of the inquiry is at present under consideration.