HC Deb 12 July 1875 vol 225 c1326
MR. J. HOLMS

asked the Under Secretary of State for India, If, in anticipation of the annual Financial Statement for India, he will place upon the Table of the House the Army Estimates for that Country for the current financial year, with a Statement showing the actual number of the rank and file of the European and Indian troops, together with the ages of the men, according to the latest information in the possession of the Government; also stating the total annual military charge during each of the past five years, including expenditure of every kind in India on barracks, roads, and military works, &c. as well as all charges made at home on account of the Army in India?

LORD GEORGE HAMILTON

, in reply, said, that the information asked by the hon. Member respecting the Army Estimates for India, with other particulars, were already contained in the Annual Returns laid before Parliament, but he had no objection to produce this information in a separate form.