MR. DUNDAS WHITE (Dumbartonshire)To ask the Secretary of State for War whether and to what extent the submarine mining work of the Royal Engineers has been discontinued; what was the approximate cost of the submarine mining stores, and how they were disposed of; and where and by whom any submarine mining is now carried on.
313 (Answered by Mr. Secretary Haldane.) The submarine mining work of the Royal Engineers has been entirely discontinued. The estimated value of the stores in 1905 was £551,080. These stores, with the exception of a few launches, were handed over to the Admiralty in 1905. The last part of the Question should, therefore, be addressed to my right hon. friend.