HC Deb 02 February 1900 vol 78 c440
MR. WARNER

I beg to ask the Financial Secretary to the War Office if the War Office have discontinued the old system of buying through a broker in the metal market, and now buy by tender, so that the market is always affected by their order before they buy.

THE FINANCIAL SECRETARY TO THE WAR OFFICE (Mr. J. POWELL-WILLIAMS,) Birmingham, S.

Yes, the change has been made; the old system did not work so well as the new, everything being taken into account.