§ 65. Mr. REMERasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether the letter sent from the Treasury to the Admiralty in 1930, referred to in the Minutes of Evidence before the Select Committee on Public Funds, that ships should be sent to sea as units in the British Fleet with guns that could not fire can now be communicated to the House?
§ Mr. HORE-BELISHAMy right hon. Friend has read the letter which is apparently referred to by my hon. Friend, and it certainly does not bear the interpretation placed upon it. He does not, however, propose to depart from the usual practice that letters from the Treasury to Departments on financial matters should not in the public interest be published. I may add that the incident in question is discussed, and the comments of the Select Committee of Public Accounts upon it will be found, on pages 6 and 7 of the Second Report of that Committee for 1932.