§ MR. JAMES HOPE (Sheffield, Central)To ask the Financial Secretary to the War Office whether he can state the total value of guns and shell manufactured and delivered for the War Office during the financial year ended 31st March, 1908; and. what proportion of such value represents guns and shell delivered under contract by private firms.
(Answered by Mr. Acland.) The information asked for is not available. All that can be given readily is the approximate expenditure on guns and gun ammunition, and these figures include the expenditure on mountings as well as on guns (including spare parts), on cordite for filling shell, and on repairs to artillery equipments. This total expenditure was approximately £933,000, of which £590,000 represents expenditure in the ordnance factories.