§ MR. CLELAND (Glasgow, Bridgeton)To ask Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer in how many cases the officers who were recently sent from London to examine the stock in the Liverpool warehouses were instructed to pay a second visit to the same premises; how many casks wore examined; how many showed ordinary losses, how many special losses, and how many chargeable losses on each occasion; and how many of the chargeable losses found by the visiting officers were paid by the firm in question and how many have been remitted.
(Answered by Mr. Asquith.) In only one instance was a second visit paid to any Liverpool bonded warehouse by the officers recently detailed in the ordinary course for examination of stock. The object of such an examination is for revenue purposes only, and it is not in the public interest to divulge the information thus obtained. It may, however, be stated that the Board of Customs are satisfied with the integrity of the stock and that no irregularity had taken place in the warehouse in question.