§ MR. BUCHANAN (Aberdeen, East)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for India what has been the amount of expenditure to the present time on the military operations on the Frontier?
THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIAIt is estimated that the cost of the military operations on the North-West Frontier of India, for the whole of the year 1897–98, will amount to about four crores of rupees, the equivalent in sterling of £2,541,000.