§ MR. REGINALD LUCAS (Portsmouth)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Admiralty, whether the intention of His Majesty's Government to build the new battleship, the "Edward the Seventh," in Portsmouth Dockyard, has been abandoned.
§ MR. ARNOLD-FORSTERThe intention of building one of the new battleships in Portsmouth Dockyard has been abandoned owing to the great accumulation of work in that Yard. I may inform the hon. Member that although the ship is not to be built in the Yard, there will be no diminution in the amount of work to be undertaken during the coming year.
§ In answer to Mr. KEARLEY (Devonport), Mr. ARNOLD-FORSTER said the ship would would be built by private contract.