§ SIR STAFFORD NORTHCOTEsaid, he wished to ask the Under Secretary of State for India, Whether it is the intention of the Government to submit the Home Accounts of the Government of India, which have just been delivered, to the Committee of Public Accounts?
MR. GRANT DUFFHaving regard, Sir, to the 7th and 8th paragraphs of the Report of the Committee on Public Accounts for 1868, and considering that the arrangment with respect to the salary and duties of our Auditor, which that Committee pronounced to be "not free from objection," no longer exists, we do not think that any useful purpose would be served by again this year submitting the Home Accounts of the Government of India to the Committee on Public Accounts. "We do not accordingly propose to take the initiative 119 in submitting them; but if my right hon. Friend, after re-considering the matter, thinks it desirable to move that they should be so submitted, we shall make no objection whatever to his proposal.