Lieutenant-Colonel Sir J. HOPEasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Munitions whether his Department has kept a list of contractors who have been struck off the Government rolls for misconduct in connection with war supplies; find, if so, whether he will lay the list upon the Table of this House?
§ Mr. KELLAWAYA black list of contractors whose names have been removed from the List of Contractors employed by the Minister on account of misconduct in connection with war supplies is kept in the Ministry of Munitions. That list, however, is treated as strictly confidential, and it is not in the public interest that it should be published.