§ MR. BUCHANAN (Perthshire, E.)I beg to ask the First Lord of the Treasury whether the Esher Committee was instructed to advise as to the creation of the War Office Council; what were the terms of reference given to the Committee; and whether he will lay these terms of reference in full before the House.
§ MR. A. J. BALFOURThe terms of reference were "To advise as to the creation of a Board for the administrative business of the War Office and as to the consequential changes thereby involved."