§ MR. REES (Montgomery Boroughs)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for War whether the accounts of the county associations will be audited by the War Office auditors or by outside chartered accountants.
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR WAR (Mr. HALDANE,) HaddingtonI am about to lay before the House a statement showing the manner in which the territorial associations will be financed. The main portion of the grant will be based upon certificates of results; not upon expenditure in detail. The position of the War Office in regard to this audit will therefore be that which has obtained in regard to the Volunteers. The grants will, however, be applicable only to authorised objects, sub-serving the efficiency of the Forces; and it will probably be proposed that their appropriations to such purposes and their record in proper and duly vouched accounts should be secured by audit by qualified chartered accountants.