§ MR. CARLILE (Hertfordshire, St. Albans)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for War whether he can state the actual amounts which will be expended this year on machinery and stores materials of all kinds in the two following divisions, for those supplied by the Royal Arsenal at Woolwich and for those supplied by contract, respectively; and the names of the firms and the situation of their works supplying the materials, stores, and machinery by contract.
§ MR. HALDANEI assume that the hon. Member is referring to expenditure within the Ordnance Factory Vote. The provision under that Vote for 1908–9 is as follows: Materials, stores and machinery to be supplied by contract, £1,169,000; machinery to be supplied by the Ordnance Factories, £31,000. The value of the stores supplied by the Ordnance Factories as finished work is included in the £2,677,000 shown as the cost of production under Sub-head H. of the Vote. The actual expenditure, as well as the names and addresses of the firms, are not yet known.
§ MR. CARLILEWill the information when obtained be available for the House?
§ * MR. HALDANECertainly, as regards the actual expenditure.