§ MR. EDMUND ROBERTSON (Dundee)I beg to ask the First Lord of the-Treasury if he is now in a position to-state the constitution of the proposed Committee or Commission on the Naval Works at Gibraltar, the terms of reference, and the date on which the members are to proceed to Gibraltar for the purpose of the inquiry.
§ MR. A. J. BALFOURIt will not be a Committee or Commission in the formal sense of the word; it will be an inquiry by experts into certain points and put before the First Lord of the Admiralty and the Secretary for War. It will be a full inquiry, but not with terms of reference, as the hon. Gentleman appears to suppose.
§ MR. EDMUND ROBERTSONWill there be a Report?
§ MR. A. J. BALFOURI do not know whether there will be a connected Report: probably separate points will be laid before different officers. It will be an informal inquiry.