§ MR. BARBOUR (Paisley)asked the First Lord of the Admiralty, If, in the event of the cost of producing the engines for the gunboats proposed to be constructed in Devonport Dockyard exceeding the estimate, whether the officers of the Departments concerned will be held pecuniarily responsible, to the extent of making good the difference?
§ THE FIRST LORD (Lord GEORGE HAMILTON) (Middlesex, Ealing)No, Sir; the officers in no shipbuilding yard are pecuniarily responsible if their estimates are exceeded; and we do not propose to introduce such an innovation in the Royal Dockyards.