HC Deb 21 March 1878 vol 238 cc1752-3
GENERAL SIR GEORGE BALFOUR

asked the Under Secretary of State for India, If he will, as early as practicable, lay upon the Table an explanatory Memorandum of the Budget details of Revenue and Expenditure of India, as recently reported by telegram; also a Statement of the alterations in the Tariff, with the calculated amounts remitted under the several articles; the addition thereto; and a Copy of the Minute of Lord Lytton, the Viceroy, about Public Works?

LORD GEORGE HAMILTON,

in reply, said, he would be glad to give any information as to the Indian Budget; but, as they had only recently received the details, they could not give other information at present than that published in the newspapers.