§ Mr. HORE-BELISHAasked the First Lord of the Admiralty whether, seeing that £150,000 and £100,000 were spent on repairs of Admiralty overseas oil-tankers at private yards during the years 1924–25 and 1925–26, respectively, as contrasted with £34,350 and £2,568 spent on similar work at His Majesty's Dockyards, he will consider the possibility of giving a larger proportion of this repair work to His Majesty's Dockyards?
§ Lieut.-Colonel HEADLAMRepairs to Admiralty overseas oil-tankers are effected at His Majesty's Dockyards in so far as the economical employment of these vessels will permit. The smallness of the amount of repair work which it was possible to carry out in the Royal Dockyards in 1925–26 was due to exceptional circumstances.