§ MR. T. R. BUCHANAN (Aberdeenshire, E.)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for India whether the additional expenditure of Rx.200,000 which, as announced by the Indian Finance Minister, will be annually entailed on the Indian Revenues by the military changes being introduced in this country is a provisional estimate for the year, or does it represent the result finally arrived at and agreed to by the Home and Indian Governments?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIAThe sum of Rx.200,000 entered in the Estimates for 1898–99 can only be a provisional and approximate estimate of the charge falling on this particular financial year. No decision has yet been arrived at on the application to India of the changes in the pay of British troops.