§ Mr. HANCOCKasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty whether his attention has been called to the state- 1698W ment in the Geddes Committee Report that only 46 naval posts of £2,000 and upwards exists, seeing that in a statement supplied by him on 22nd February he gives the names of 50 persons occupying naval posts of this value?
§ Mr. AMERYThe statement which I sent to the hon. Member on 22nd February is correct. The figure given in the Geddes Committee Report, to which he refers, was not supplied by the Admiralty.