§ MR. SEYMOUR KEAY (Elgin and Nairn)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury from what sources of revenue, for what local purposes, and under what enactments are certain Imperial resources applied as grants to the amount of £979,812 yearly, as shown in column six of the Return No. 134 of 1890?
§ SIR J. T. HIBBERTThe amount to which the hon. Member refers represents what was estimated to be the amount of sundry Parliamentary Grants in 1889–90 for Irish purposes, which, if necessary, were to constitute the ultimate security of the British taxpayer in connection with the advances in stock to Irish tenants. Those purposes are specified in the Land Act, 1891, Section 5 (1). The sums in question are voted by Parliament, and issued out of the Exchequer under the authority of the annual Appropriation Act.