Orders of the Day — Navy, Army and Air Expenditure, 1927.

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at on 3 May 1929.

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Photo of Mr William Bridgeman Mr William Bridgeman , Oswestry

I am afraid I cannot give the hon. Member for Finsbury (Mr. Gillett) any details as to this excess expenditure on contract work. It very often happens that, for some reason or another, work proceeds more rapidly or more slowly than was originally expected. Sometimes the progress of work depends on the weather, and there may be other reasons. The hon. Member asked for an assurance that the things for which we have paid and which have caused this excess will not have to be accounted for in future years. What was spent in excess of what we expected to spend will come off what would have been spent later. The only point is that the bills come in rather sooner than we expected.