§ MR. NAOROJI (Finsbury, Central)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for India whether he has any reason, to doubt the statement in Return No. 192, of 17th May 1892, from which the following result is obtained, viz., that the total amount of annual allowances (whether in the form of salary, pay, fees, emoluments, or pensions) of not less than Rx.1,000 for each person, of Europeans, whether resident or not resident in India, is about Rx. 170,000,000 (taking payments in sterling at 1s. ld. per rupee), and what is the total amount of similar annual allowances to Europeans, whether resident or not resident in India (including the personal expenditure on soldiers besides their pay) at less than Rx.1,000 for each person?
§ MR. H. H. FOWLERThe Return of 17th May 1892 comprises not only payments by the State for the civil administration of India, but similar payments for the Military and Public Works Departments, and also the payments made by the Railway Companies, whether State or Guaranteed. The further information for which my hon. Friend asks will probably be called for in the forthcoming inquiry.