§ Mr. HORE-BELISHAasked the First Lord of the Admiralty whether he can undertake that furniture for Penzance, Hastings and Exeter (fireproof, light pattern) will be made in His Majesty's Dockyard, Devonport, seeing that the new type of fireproof light-patterned furniture, chests of drawers for officers' clothing, nests of drawers for papers, folding lavatories, bottle racks, towel rails, knee-hole and roll-top desks has been done exclusively in the dockyards hitherto, and that if this work is given 1918W to outside firms it will mean the discharge of joiners from His Majesty's Dockyards?
§ Mr. AMMONAs a result of competitive tendering, nearly all of the furniture in question will be manufactured in the dockyards, the distribution between the dockyards depending on the respective tenders and on the amount of other similar work in hand.