HC Deb 23 April 1874 vol 218 c985
SIR CHARLES MILLS

asked the Under Secretary of State for India, If all the borrowing powers of the Secretary of State for India under previous Acts of Parliament have been exhausted; and, if they have not, if he will state what is the amount which still remains?

LORD GEORGE HAMILTON

, in reply, said, that the borrowing powers of the Secretary of State under all Acts previous to the Loan Act of the present Session had been exhausted, with the single exception of the power contained in the Loan Act of last Session, by which he was enabled to borrow temporarily a sum not exceeding £2,000,000.