§ LORD CHARLES BERESFORDI beg to ask the First Lord of the Treasury if the Council of Defence ever meet; if so, whether he can inform the House of the date of its last meeting?
§ THE FIRST LORD OF THE TREASURY (Mr. A. J. BALFOUR,) Manchester, E.In answer to my noble Friend I have to say that the Committee to which he refers is a Committee of the Cabinet, and it is not usual, and it would not, I think, be convenient, to give statistics as to the meetings of either the Cabinet or its Committees.