§ MR. GEORGE ROBERTS (Norwich)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Admiralty when the negotiations to acquire the site for the Loch Long torpedo range at Greenock were commenced with Sir Hugh Shaw Stewart; when they were completed; and who was the First Lord of the Admiralty at the time the negotiations were entered into.
§ MR. EDMUND ROBERTSONNegotiations were begun in November, 1905, and completed in January, 1908. In answer to the third Question, the First Lord was Lord Cawdor.