§ MR. JENNINGS (Stockport)I beg to ask the First Lord of the Treasury whether he has considered that, under the arrangement lately made by the Government, the time allotted for the War Office and the Admiralty Office Votes is likely to be swallowed up by speeches on technical questions of Military and Naval administration, thus preventing any adequate examination of the actual ex-expenditure of those Offices; and whether, having regard to the explicit promises more than once made by the Govern- 691 ment that ample opportunity should be afforded early this Session for bringing before Parliament the excessive expenditure in these Offices, he will either postpone a general Debate on the organisation of the Services, or arrange that the Votes shall be taken again at an early date for their proper and legitimate discussion.
§ *MR. W. H. SMITHI shall endeavour to arrange that an opportunity be given for discussion of the Votes.