§ MR. TULLYI beg to ask the Secretary of State for War whether he can state on what grounds the contract for supplying bread to the Victoria Barracks, Belfast, and the Hollywood Barracks, County Down, was given to a firm of wholesale druggists and chemists in Corporation Street, Belfast; and whether, seeing that this firm, being non-bakers, will have to sublet the contract, he will state what steps he proposes to take in this matter.
LORD STANLEYThese contracts were arranged, as all bread contracts are, by the General Officer commanding the district. The firm in question was selected as their offer was the lowest in the competition. Inquiries will be made as to subletting.