HC Deb 20 February 1890 vol 341 cc742-3
MR. JAMES ROWLANDS (Finsbury, E.)

I beg to ask the Secretary of State for War whether an order for 500 bandoleers was given to Messrs. Hobson and Sons; and, whether it is a fact that the order, either whole or in part, is being executed by Messrs. Ross and Co., who were struck off the List of Contractors in 1888?

MR. E. STANHOPE

The answer to the first question is in the negative. In any such contract there is now contained a clause forbidding the contractor to sub-let any portion of his contract.