asked the Prime Minister if he will consider the advisability of including an admiral in the War Council, seeing that we are a nation that exists by sea power?

I am not prepared to adopt the suggestion of my hon. and gallant Friend. Whenever naval affairs are under consideration the naval advisers of the Government invariably attend the War Cabinet.

Arising out of that, in view of the mess the War Cabinet has got the country into, is there no chance of them being superseded?

The hon. Member is, perhaps, as good a judge of that as I am.

Has any naval advice been taken with a view to helping the position of our Armies at the present time so as to secure that our Fleet should take action, rather than that the German Fleet should be bombarding the Belgian coast?

Of course, these questions are constantly under the consideration both of the War Cabinet and their naval advisers.

With no effect.