§ Mr. CLOUGHasked the Prime Minister when the next Report of the Auditor-General will be issued and with what period it will deal; and whether steps will be taken that it should contain a complete analytical review of our accounting methods during the War period, so that this may be a guide to Departments in future?
Mr. CHAMBERLAINThe Comptroller and Auditor-General's Reports on the accounts of 1918–19 will be issued in the ordinary course early in 1920. He informs me that it would be impossible for them to include an analytical review of accounting methods during the War. It is as yet too early for such a Report to be framed, but he will be glad to consider the suggestion later.