§ MR. BERNARD COLERIDGEI beg to ask the Secretary of State for War whether the Government Departments are increasing the manufacture of steel castings and diminishing the supply obtained from private establishments; and Whether he can state what proportion is now given out for private contract and what proportion produced in Government establishments?
§ *MR. WOODALLThere has been no increase in the average output of steel castings in the Ordnance factories during the last nine months. The proportion given out to the trade has been 71 per cent., against 29 per cent. produced in the factories.