§ SIR JOSEPH BAILEY (Hereford)asked the First Lord of the Admiralty, Whether the whole of the tickets for the Crocodile have been allotted to Members of Parliament and their wives; and, whether a certain number of tickets given for that ship, which might have been allotted to the officers of the House according to the usual custom, were recalled by the Admiralty?
§ THE FIRST LORD (Lord GEORGE HAMILTON) (Middlesex, Ealing)The whole of the tickets for the Crocodile, 700 in number, were sent to the Speaker for distribution. No Crocodile tickets were recalled by the Admiralty. On the contrary, on their learning that the distribution of the 700 tickets still left some of the officers of the House unprovided for, 30 additional tickets for the Assistance, which ship would have the same facilities as the Crocodile, were sent for their use. It might be stated that whereas, in 1867, 500 tickets were provided for the House of Commons, they had on this occasion been provided with 730.