§ MR. ASHTON (Bedfordshire, Luton)To ask the Secretary of State for War whether, in defining the duties of the Assistant Financial Secretary in the necessary Order in Council, there will be included the duty of advising the administrative officers at the War Office and in commands on all questions of Army expenditure, as included in the Order in Council of the 10th August, 1904, among the duties of the Director of Army Finance and Accounting Officer to the War Office.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Haldane.) The reply is in the affirmative.