§ Mr. ALLEN PARKINSONasked the Secretary to the Treasury whether the recommendation of the Select Committee on National Expenditure that the system of cost-accounting adopted by the War Office should be extended to all Government Departments has been acted on in all Government Departments; and, if not, in which Government Departments it has been acted on?
§ Mr. BALDWINCommercial accounts are kept in a very large number of cases as subsidiary accounts to the Parliamentary Appropriation Accounts. The question of applying to other Departments the system recently adopted for Army Estimates raises important issues, which will require consideration in connection with the Estimates for next year.