HC Deb 02 February 1900 vol 78 cc444-5
MR. LLOYD MORGAN

On behalf of the hon. Member for the Gainsborough Division of Lincolnshire, I beg to ask the Secretary of State for India whether any account is given by the Afghan Government of the manner in which the sum of £130,000 or thereabouts (which is annually paid to that Government) is expended, and whether an account of such expenditure can be presented to the House.

THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIA (Lord G. HAMILTON,) Middlesex, Ealing

The terms of the agreement with His Highness the Ameer, dated the 12th November, 1893, presented to Parliament in 1896, do not impose any obligation upon His Highness to render any account of his expenditure of the subsidy of 18 lakhs, and no such account is given.