§ 4. Mr. GEORGE HALLasked the First Lord of the Admiralty the total amount spent and percentage of money spent in the manufacture, purchase, repair, and alteration of all guns, gun forgings, breech mechanisms, spare parts, aiming rifles, tools, and implements required for the naval service, and for the purchase of all descriptions of projectiles and ammuni- 1819 tion and their components, explosives for torpedoes, mines, etc., with private trade and in Government factories, respectively, each year during the past 10 years?
| Navy Estimates: Vote 9. | ||||||
| The amounts spent in each of the years 1925–1934 on the stores indicated for all services. | ||||||
| Year. | Total Expenditure. | Spent in | Percentage of total amount spent in | |||
| Government Factories. | Trade. | Government Factories. | Trade. | |||
| £ | £ | £ | ||||
| 1925 | … | 2,171,000 | 1,116,000 | 1,055,000 | 51 | 49 |
| 1926 | … | 1,923,000 | 87,000 | 1,076,000 | 44 | 56 |
| 1927 | … | 2,578,000 | 910,000 | 1,668,000 | 35 | 65 |
| 1928 | … | 2,455,000 | 1,261,000 | 1,194,000 | 51 | 49 |
| 1929 | … | 2,204,000 | 1,208,000 | 996,000 | 55 | 45 |
| 1930 | … | 1,871,000 | 1,098,000 | 773,000 | 59 | 41 |
| 1931 | … | 1,667,000 | 846,000 | 821,000 | 51 | 49 |
| 1232 | … | 1,467,000 | 708,000 | 759,000 | 48 | 52 |
| 1933 | … | 1,706,000 | 791,000 | 915,000 | 46 | 54 |
| 1934(Forecast) | … | 1,836,000 | 851,000 | 985,000 | 46 | 54 |
§ 7. Mr. GARDNERasked the First Lord of the Admiralty the total amount spent, and the percentage of money spent, on the purchase of torpedoes, torpedo stores, mines, paravanes, depth charges, and stores of allied character, also for any such articles required for instructional purposes in the torpedo school, ships, and mining school, from the ordnance factory and from the private trade, respectively, during each of the past 10 years?
| Year. | Total Expenditure. | Spent in | Percentage of total amount spent in | |||
| Government Factories. | Trade. | Government Factories. | Trade. | |||
| £ | £ | £ | Per cent. | Per cent. | ||
| 1925 | … | 478,000 | 367,000 | 111,000 | 77 | 23 |
| 1926 | … | 312,000 | 277,000 | 35,000 | 89 | 11 |
| 1927 | … | 492,000 | 456,000 | 36,000 | 93 | 7 |
| 1928 | … | 456,000 | 428,000 | 28,000 | 94 | 6 |
| 1929 | … | 402,000 | 360,000 | 42,000 | 90 | 10 |
| 1930 | … | 465,000 | 404,000 | 61,000 | 87 | 13 |
| 1931 | … | 493,000 | 437,000 | 56,000 | 89 | 11 |
| 1932 | … | 572,000 | 468,000 | 104,000 | 82 | 18 |
| 1933 | … | 814,000 | 542,000 | 272,000 | 67 | 33 |
| 1934(Forecast) | … | 934,000 | 607,000 | 327,000 | 65 | 35 |