§ Colonel DAYasked the Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department, as representing the First Commissioner of Works, the date upon which the contract was confirmed on behalf of his Department for the purchase of matches used in the House of Commons that are manufactured in Czechoslovakia?
Mr. LOCKER-LAMPSONAuthority was given to accept a tender for foreign matches on the 5th November last, and the tender was actually accepted on the 10th of that month.