§ MR. LEVYTo ask the Secretary of State for War why the requests made by the Comptroller and Auditor-General during 1904 for copies of certain contracts for supplies of stores, etc., for the South African War have not been complied with; and whether it is the intention of the War Office to supply copies of these contracts to the Auditor-General.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Arnold-Forster.) The copies of the contracts, 186 for which the Auditor-General asked, were at once called for from South Africa. These contracts have been under investigation by the Committee which is now sitting at the War Office, but I have given orders that they shall be forwarded at once to the Auditor-General.