§ MR. LABOUCHEREI beg to ask the Secretary of State for War whether, in regard to the stock in the Ordnance Factory, referred to by Sir Charles Ryan in the revised Report on Public Accounts, complete stocktaking is effected punctually; and, if so, at what periods?
§ *MR. E. STANHOPEStocktaking is continuously carried out in the Ordnance Factories, so that agreement between the stock and the ledger accounts is arrived at in sections. It would interfere too greatly with current work and would require too large a staff to take the whole stock at any one period.