§ Mr. BELLAIRSasked the First Lord of the Admiralty whether a new item, amounting to about £187,000, has this year been included in the repairs section of the Shipbuilding Vote and this item includes work at naval colleges, barracks, prize-firing targets, booms, wireless telegraph stations, and shore stations generally; and whether he can state the purpose of transferring them to the Shipbuilding Vote?
§ Dr. MACNAMARAPrior to the financial year 1909–10 the dockyard expenditure in connection with these services was provided for under Subhead F of the Programme of Shipbuilding, "Establishment, Incidental and Miscellaneous Charges, Unappropriated." As this expenditure could be directly associated with the services in question it has been decided that it should be provided for in future under the relative Subheads (D and E) of the Programme. This transfer of the provision, moreover, enables the proper proportion of incidental expenditure to be allocated to the services in the same manner as for other direct expenditure.