§ MR. CHANNINGI beg to ask the First Lord of the Treasury when the Supplementary Civil Service Estimates will be presented and issued to Members; whether they can be issued early in the week; and whether he will arrange to take them, as was done last year, before the Civil Service Estimates for the ensuing year 1897–8?
§ THE FIRST LORD OF THE TREASURYThe Estimates will be printed, or at all events all the Supplementary Estimates that will be taken next Friday will be printed on Wednesday. As the hon. Gentleman is aware, it does not depend on me but upon the Department that prepares the Supplementary Estimates as to what date they are laid before the House, but I trust that will be convenient.
§ MR. CHANNINGWhich of the Supplementary Estimates will be taken on Friday? Will Class 4 be taken?
§ THE FIRST LORD OF THE TREASURYI believe that the only Supplementary Estimate—so my right hon. Friend the Secretary to the Treasury informs me—in regard to which there is any doubt about its being printed is one which has come in very late from the Irish Land Committee.