§ Mr. MEYSEY-THOMPSONasked what is the value of stores voted in the Navy Estimates, 1909–10, withdrawn without replacement during the present financial year?
§ Mr. McKENNAI can only reply to the hon. Member, though I do not very well know what he means, that none of the stores voted in this year's Estimates have been withdrawn without replacement.
§ Mr. MEYSEY-THOMPSONMay I ask whether during the last financial year stores have been withdrawn which have not been replaced?
§ Mr. McKENNAMay I ask the hon. Gentleman's attention to the meaning in the Estimates. He will then see that it would be impossible to withdraw stores in the proper sense of the term without replacing them.
§ Mr. MEYSEY - THOMPSONasked whether the stores of the amount of £2,319,002, withdrawn without replacement during 1906–8, have been replaced; and, if so, to what amount?
§ Mr. McKENNAI am unable to understand the meaning of the hon. Gentleman's question, as stores withdrawn without replacement obviously could not have been replaced. Such stores as have been withdrawn without replacement have been withdrawn in execution of a policy laid down in 1905, which has not since been varied.
§ Mr. MEYSEY-THOMPSONMay I ask the right hon. Gentleman to answer the second part of the question?
§ Mr. McKENNAThe hon. Gentleman asks me what amount of stores have been withdrawn without replacement? It is obvious that any stores withdrawn without replacement cannot have been replaced.
§ Mr. MEYSEY-THOMPSONWhat is the actual deficiency?
§ Mr. McKENNAI must ask the hon. Gentleman to be good enough to put a question on the Paper.
§ Mr. MEYSEY-THOMPSONAre ordnance stores included?
§ Mr. McKENNAYes, stores of all kinds were withdrawn. According to the policy laid down in 1905, stores of all kinds were to be withdrawn without replacement where the stores were considered redundant.