MR. GIBSON BOWLESI beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether he can explain why the grand totals of the Gross Estimates for 1893–4, and for 1892–3, are not shown in the Civil Service Estimates, as is done in the Navy Estimates and the Army Estimates; and whether it is the fact that the grand total of the Civil Service Estimates for 1893–4 is £19,436,953, as against £18,901,637 for 1892–3?
§ SIR J. T. HIBBERTI am not aware of any reason why the summary at the beginning of the Civil Service Estimates should not state the gross and net totals of all the Classes added together in the same way as the Abstract now states them for each Class; and I will give instructions for carrying out the change in the next year's Estimates. The figures in the second paragraph are correct.