§ MR. HANBURY (Preston)asked the Secretary of State for War, what steps have been taken, in pursuance of his recent Memorandum on the subject, to ascertain what, if any, officials of the War Department, civil or military, now hold shares in "a firm of any kind which enters into contracts with the Department," certain Companies, such as Railway Companies, being excepted and, whether the excepted Companies will be more particularly defined, so as to avoid any evasion of the Memorandum, which has been issued in accordance with the strong recommendation of the Royal Commission on Warlike Stores?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE (Mr. E STANHOPE) (Lincolnshire, Horncastle)I have already explained to the House the nature of my recent Memorandum, and I am responsible to Parliament for seeing that my orders are obeyed. If 362 any breach of those orders takes place I shall know how to deal with it.
§ MR. HANBURYIn consequence of he unsatisfactory nature of the right hon. Gentleman's reply, I shall call attention to the subject on the Votes.