HC Deb 30 November 1925 vol 188 c1822
58. Brigadier - General CLIFTON BROWN

asked the Secretary of State for War what amount would be saved to Army funds if the system of cost accounting in the Army was abolished?

The FINANCIAL SECRETARY to the WAR OFFICE (Captain Douglas King)

The scheme of Army cost accounting hitherto in force would in a normal year, allowing for pension charges, involve an expenditure of some £300,000; the scheme now contemplated is estimated to cost in a normal year well under £100,000.

Mr. HARMSWORTH

How were the audits carried on in 1914, and was it by independent accounting or by costing system?

Captain KING

The system was brought in at the end of the War, not in 1914.