§ MR. ASHMEAD-BARTLETTasked the Under Secretary of State for India, Whether, in his statement, that "the Viceroy, Lord Ripon, had reduced the expenditure in 1881–2 by £6,300,000," 1476 he included the sum of £9,720,000, being the reduction under the head of Military Reductions in Afghanistan, and a further reduction of over £2,000,000, under the head of Frontier Railways?
§ MR. J. K. CROSSYes, Sir; I think the hon. Member for Eye must see that money spent on war and frontier railways is at least as irretrievably gone as if it were spent on useful public works. I spoke of gross expenditure.
§ MR. ASHMEAD-BARTLETTsaid, he understood from the answer of the hon. Gentleman that there had been a practical increase of £5,400,000 in the Expenditure of India excepting the military expenditure.