§ Sir CHARLES HENRYasked the First Lord of the Admiralty if he will state the additional amounts that would have been required over and above the £31,869,500 expended in the financial year 1906–7 for the upkeep of the Navy, to provide for the Navy requirements of 1906–7 on the basis of present costs of construction, rates of wages, and other expenditure in connection with the Navy?
§ Mr. CHURCHILLI regret I am unable to furnish my hon. Friend with this information. Its preparation would involve an1146W expenditure of time and labour out of all proportion to the value of the particulars to be obtained. The figures would in any case be to a large extent conjectural.