§ SIR WILLIAM HOULDSWORTH (Manchester, N.W.)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for India what additions to the debt of India by sterling and by silver borrowings respectively, have been made since the closing of the Mints in June, 1893?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIA (Lord GEORGE HAMILTON,) Middlesex, EalingThe net additions to the debt of India since the closing of the mints in June, 1893, are (1) by sterling borrowings, £16,696,766; and (2) by silver borrowings, Rx8,602,401. I should add that during that period the capital outlay in railway and irrigation works was over £4,400,000 in England, and Rx16,000,000 in India.