§ Sir G. Foxasked the Secretary of State for War if he will state the quantity of rum, the property of his Department, packed in cases in the two bonded warehouses in Birmingham and where it came from; how much was recently disposed of to other Government Departments; which Departments participated; and how much was kept by his Department.
§ Mr. LawsonThe total quantity was 20,000 gallons: the rum was forwarded to60W the bonded warehouses on the instructions of the Ministry of Food, to whom it had been handed over as surplus to military requirements. I have no information as to its subsequent disposal.