§ VISCOUNT FOLKESTONEasked the President of the Local Government Board, Whether the total cost of the police was for 1871, £784,000; for 1872, £813,000; for 1873, £863,000; for 1874, £919,000; for 1875, £938,000, for 1876, £978,000; and for 1877, £1,000,000; and, whether these figures do not show that the ratio of increase was considerably less since 1874, in which year the late Government gave the increased subvention, than it was for the three years preceding?
§ SIR CHARLES W. DILKE, in reply, said, that the figures of the noble Lord were correct in round numbers. The net cost in 1874 was £1,239,374, and the subvention £294,282; in 1881 the net cost was £1,106,453, and the subvention, £760,380; hence the ratepayers had been benefited to the extent of £132,921, at a cost to the Treasury of £466,098. As regards the ratio the noble Lord was perfectly correct.