§ MR. R. W. DUFF (Banffshire)asked the First Lord of the Admiralty, Whether his attention had been directed to a summary of the Report of the Committee relating to Naval Contracts, which appeared in a daily newspaper last Friday; and, whether the noble Lord could inform the House as to the source of that journal's information; and, also, when the Report was likely to be laid on the Table of the House?
§ THE FIRST LORD (Lord GEORGE HAMILTON) (Middlesex, Ealing)I saw that a certain portion of the Report in question appeared in a daily newspaper; but I have no means of ascertaining how it got there. The Committee was not a Departmental one; but it had the advantage of having upon it several well-known Members of Parliament. I propose to lay the Report on the Table, together with other Reports relating to Dockyard Administration, in a short time.