§ MR. CALEB WRIGHT (Lancashire, S.W., Leigh)I beg to ask the First Lord of the Admiralty if the £21,000,000 voted by Parliament in 1890 for increasing the naval defences has been spent; and if he could state to the House the amount upon each class of war vessels respectively?
§ LORD GEORGE HAMILTONIn answer to the first question, I would refer the hon. Gentleman to the Memorandum by the Financial Secretary of the Admiralty, which is printed at page 4 as a preface to the Navy Estimates for the year, and which will give him all the information he requires. Particulars as to the actual expenditure upon the various classes of ships building under the Naval Defence Act up to the end of the last financial year are now before the Comptroller and Auditor General, and will be shortly presented to the House.