§ MR. RUNCIMANTo ask the Secretary to the Admiralty whether the "Circe," "Leda," and "Jason" were repaired in private dockyards on the time and material basis; and whether the same basis is being, and will be, adopted in the case of the "Halcyon."
(Answered by Mr. Pretyman.) The re-engining and re-boilering of these four vessels was contracted for at a fixed price, but the subsequent work of completing them for sea (which work it was originally intended to execute in His Majesty's dockyards) was contracted for on the system of "net cost plus percentage."