§ Mr. GINNELLasked the Secretary to the Treasury if he will state for each financial year since 1893–4 the gross expenditure on the Navy, construction, maintenance, etc.; the estimated amount of this spent in Ireland; and the proportion of one total to the other for the whole period?
§ Mr. McKENNAThe hon. Member will find the answer to the first part of the question on the first page of the Navy Estimates for each successive year. It is impossible to give any estimate of the amount spent in Ireland. No analysis could show what part of the stores and material supplied to the Navy come from Ireland, nor what proportion of the pay of officers and men is spent in that country.