§ SIR CHARLES DILKE (Gloucester, Forest of Dean)I beg to ask the First Lord of the Treasury, whether the President of the Council has recently been brought into new relations towards the great spending departments concerned in Imperial Defence; and, if so, what is the nature of those relations; and whether the changes at the War Office, announced by the late Government for 1st October, are to take place?
§ THE FIRST LORD OF THE TREASURYreplied that it was true that the President of the Council had recently been brought into new relations towards the great spending departments concerned in Imperial Defence, but he was not in a position to give a more detailed answer. The matter was receiving the most careful consideration of the Government.