§ Mr. CLAUDE HAYasked the Home Secretary if he will enlarge the reference to the Departmental Committee on the Metropolitan Police recently appointed by him, so that evidence can be taken as to the extra net cost per constable and per pound of rateable value of the metropolitan force employed on ordinary police duties when compared with the cities of Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool, and Manchester, and as to the relationship between the receiver's accounts annually submitted to Parliament and the estimates approved by the Home Office for the purposes of the Police Fund and Pension Fund?
§ Mr. GLADSTONENo, Sir. It is in any case too late. Information as to the items which make up the cost of the several police forces in England and Wales is given in Tables III. and VI. (c) appended to the Annual Reports of His Majesty's Inspectors of Constabulary.