HC Deb 18 June 1902 vol 109 cc979-80
MR. EDMUND ROBERTSON

I wish to ask the First Lord of the Treasury whether he will keep back further proceedings on Votes 8 and 12 of the Navy Estimates until the Report of the Boiler Committee is issued. We have been unable to obtain any assurance from the Secretary to the Admiralty as to when it will be circulated.

MR. A. J. BALFOUR

I think that with regard to Vote 8 the Report age remains open; and we certainly shall not take it at the present period of the session. I do not know when the Report of the Boiler Committee will be published, and therefore I cannot promise to keep the Report of Vote 8 back for it; but there will be no desire to take the Vote early. Vote 12 will be taken on Friday, for reasons I have already given to the House.

MR. WILLIAM ALLAN

Is it not the fact that the Report of the Boiler Committee has been in the hands of the Admiralty since the end of May, and it is not yet delivered to hon. Members?

[No answer was returned.]