§ SIR W. WEDDERBURN (Banffshire)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for India whether any, and what, action has been taken, on the recommendations of the Indian Public Service Commission of 1386, regarding the special departments of the Indian Administration, referred to by Lord Cross in the last paragraph (37) of his Despatch (No. Public 104), dated London, 12th September, 1889; whether the Local Governments and the Government of India have forwarded to the Secretary of State their views on the suggestions of the Commission regarding these special departments as desired by Lord Cross in the above paragraph of his Despatch; and what orders have been passed by the Secretary of State thereon?
§ * THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIA (Mr. H. H. FOWLER, Wolverhampton, E.)It is impossible to give, within the limit of an answer, in this House a statement of the steps which have been taken with regard to the matters referred to in the hon. Member's question. The subject is a large and complicated one, and has been dealt with in a lengthy Correspondence which is not yet 317 complete. When the Correspondence is complete there will be no objection to laying it on the Table of the House if the hon. Member will move for it.