§ MR. HANBURY (Preston)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury what is the amount annually paid to the Inland Revenue Department by the India Office for the control of the stamps required by the Government of India; how much of this amount is paid in salaries, and wages, and to whom; and whether any portion of this amount so received for a definite purpose, but unappropriated for that purpose, is treated as a miscellaneous receipt by the Board of Inland Revenue, and paid to 1120 the Exchequer as such, or refunded to the India Office?
§ *MR. JACKSONI am informed that the amount paid for the year ending March, 1889, by the Revenue Department for services in India was £3,479 4s. 7d. Of this sum £2,489 4s. 7d. was paid for the wages of the men employed by the Indian Government. The balance of £990 was paid over to the Exchequer as miscellaneous revenue, under a general arrangement, signed by the Treasury in 1886. Of that sum £690 was paid in the shape of salaries to certain officers for the control and inspection of stamps, and the balance was held over for incidental expenditure.
§ MR. HANBURYWhat was the incidental expenditure?
§ *MR. JACKSONI cannot say, but I take it that in every Department there is a certain amount of incidental expenditure.
§ MR. HANBURYOn the Inland Revenue Vote I will call attention to the matter.