§ MR. LAMBERTI beg to ask the First Lord of the Treasury whether the Defence Committee approve of a double system of recruiting necessitated by foreign-service and short-service Armies; and will he allow the House, without the intervention of the Government Whips, to express its opinion of the scheme.
§ MR. A. J. BALFOURIt is a question which would not come before the Defence Committee at all: it is entirely in the Departmental province of the Secretary of State for War.
§ MR. LAMBERTCannot the right hon. Gentleman reply to the second part of my Question.
§ MR. A. J. BALFOURDoes the hon. Gentleman suggest that any question dealing with the Army and Navy is not to be under the direction of the Government? Because I cannot assent to that.