§ MR. BRADLAUGHI beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for India whether he can now state whether any, and which, of the recommendations made by the Indian Finance Committee on 20th December, 1886, have been accepted and acted upon, and what are the savings, specifying such savings, which have been effected?
*SIR J. GORSTThe recommendations which have been adopted and are now being acted on are:—Arrangements with Provincial Governments in 1887 Rx640,100; further reductions in provincial expenditure Rx57,480; reorganisation of Public Works Department Rx157,500; allowances for hill stations and Simla travelling allowances Rx 12,600; various (Salt and Customs, High Courts, Presidency allowances, &c.) Rx45,540; supplementary proposals Rx182,648, being a gross total of Rxl,095,868. Some of these reductions, although accepted, can only take place gradually.