§ MR. HANBURY (Preston)asked the First Lord of the Treasury, Whether, in view of the evidence as to the possible reductions and incomplete audit of expenditure given before the Committee on Army and Navy Estimates, and of the late period at which the Civil Service Estimates are being brought forward this year, he will advise the appointment, early next Session, of a Committee to investigate the Civil Service Estimates, similar to that now sitting upon the Estimates of the War and Admiralty Departments?
§ THE FIRST LORD (Mr. W. H. SMITH) (Strand, Westminster)This is a very serious question, and it will receive the consideration of the Government during the Recess. I am not in a position to give any further information at the present moment.