§ MR. KNATCHBULL-HUGESSEN (Kent, Faversham)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether, if the whole of any sum voted by this House is not expended upon the particular object for which it was voted, there is any way in which the expenditure of the balance can be traced; and, if so, whether such a balance accrued in respect of money voted for works at Sheerness in 1892–3; and what has become of that balance?
§ SIR J. T. HIBBERTThe method of dealing with a balance of the kind referred to can be seen by study of the Appropriation Account for the year, always provided that the item is sufficiently important to be separately mentioned. The £3,000 voted for Sheerness under Sub-head 1 of Vote 10,' Part 1 of Navy Estimates, 1892–93, appears as a postponed item on pages 86, 87, of the Navy Appropriation Account, 1892–93. It formed part of £58,497 gross saving on works authorised by Vote in 1892–93. Of this £58,497 a sum of £17,813 was, with Treasury approval, expended on other urgent works unprovided for in Estimates. The balance, £40,684, was part of the total sum surrendered to the Exchequer at the end of the year.