§ SIR WILLIAM PLOWDEN (Wolverhampton, W.)asked the First Lord of the Admiralty, Whether the Government have it in contemplation to establish at the Admiralty a permanent financial Control, similar to that which it is officially stated will be introduced at the War Office?
§ THE FIRST LORD (Lord GEORGE HAMILTON) (Middlesex, Ealing)The 856 hon. Baronet has put this Question under a misapprehension. The Secretary of State for War stated the other day that, inasmuch as a certain portion of the expenditure of the Ordnance Department was exempted from the financial control to which all other expenditure at the War Office was subject, he proposed hereafter to establish a stricter control over this branch of outlay. No branch of expenditure at the Admiralty is in this condition, all being equally subject to the same financial control and check.