§ 67. Mr. GILLETTasked the Secretary of State for Air how many contracts of £50,000 or over for the purchase of goods have been placed with contractors, without competitive tenders for such being first received, during the present financial year?
§ Captain Viscount CURZON (Lord of the Treasury)I have been asked to reply. Twenty-one such contracts have been placed, the requirement in each case being for articles which only one particular firm was in a position to supply.