§ GENERAL SIR GEORGE BALFOURasked the Under Secretary of State for India, To continue to print the Finance Accounts of India, as has been the practice for nearly one hundred years?
§ MR. J. K. CROSSThe Indian Finance and Revenue Accounts have been laid this year, as usual, on the Table. The question of printing them rests ultimately with the House; but, so far as the India Office and Treasury are concerned, it does not seem worth while to incur the expense of some £200 a-year in reprinting them for the use of hon. Members, seeing that copies of the Indian edition are available for distribution if asked for. The Financial Statement, published in India, which contains the Accounts of the last 10 years in a summarized form, has been distributed; and also two explanatory Papers, Nos. 240 and 257.
§ GENERAL SIR GEORGE BALFOURasked by whose authority the printing of the Accounts had been forbidden?
§ MR. J. K. CROSSsaid, that if the House wished to have them printed he should be glad to have it done; but he did not think it would be worth the expense.
§ GENERAL SIR GEORGE BALFOURgave Notice that he would ask the Prime Minister whether he sanctioned a change of Parliamentary practice in that way?