§ MR. BELLAIRS (Lynn Regis)To ask the Secretary to the Admiralty whether he can state the chief causes of the difference in cost of the hulls of the sister ships "Suffolk" and "Essex," built in the Royal Dockyards at a cost of £393,483 and £445,694 respectively.
(Answered by Mr. Edmund Robertson.) The difference in the cost of the hulls of these two vessels was inquired into by the Public Accounts Committee in July, 1905, and I can only refer the hon. Member to pages 297–299 of the Report of the Committeee for that year, where he will find a full statement of all the contributory causes.