asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he can arrange to publish a memorandum showing the total expenditure on armed forts, other than expenditure on pensions and other non-effective services, by all the principal Powers for 1913 and each of the last six years?

As regards recent years, the hon. Member will find very full information in successive issues of the League of Nations Armaments Year Book. For 1913 certain particulars are to be found in the publication "Public Finance" issued by the League in 1920 for the International Financial Conference at Brussels.