§ SIR CHARLES DILKE (Gloucestershire, Forest of Dean)To ask the Secretary to the Admiralty whether, having regard to the stipulation of the Secretary to the Treasury that the Admiralty should take the earliest opportunity of informing Parliament of the change in the cruiser programme of 1904–5, Parliament was similarly informed of the change in the cruiser programme of 1905–6.
(Answered by Mr. Edmund Robertson.)The change in the cruiser programme for 1904–5 was made public in the Explanatory Statement presented to Parliament with the Estimates for the following year. A similar course was adopted this year as being that most desirable in the interests of the public service.