§ MR. BYLES (Salford, N.)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for War will he state the dates on which the several annual meetings of the Royal Patriotic Fund Corporation for the passing of the annual accounts have been held, and on what subsequent dates those accounts have been presented to Parliament; whether the accounts for the past year are yet completed; and, if so, is there any good reason why they should not at once be laid upon the Table.
§ THE PRIME MINISTER AND FIRST LORD OF THE TREASURY (SIR H. CAMPBELL-BANNERMAN, Stirling Burghs)The dates of the annual meetings of the Royal Patriotic Fund Corporation were 27th June, 1905, 24th May, 1906, and 3rd June, 1907; and the annual Reports and Accounts adopted at such meetings were presented to Parliament on 31st July, 1905, 11th June, 1906, and 24th June, 1907. The Reports became available to Members of both Houses of Parliament as soon as the necessary copies could be printed as Parliamentary Papers by the Stationery Office in the years 1905 and 1906, and the third Report is now in the hands of the Stationery Office for that purpose.