§ MR. FIELDI beg to ask Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will state the amount of the Constabulary Force Fund on its division into benefit and reward branches in 1883, the total amount contributed to the benefit branch by compulsory deductions from officers and men from the18th June, 1883, to the end of 1900, and the amount disbursed to members of the force, their widows and orphans, during the same period.
§ MR. WYNDHAMAt the request of my right hon. friend I will reply to this question. The date of the division of the fund into benefit and reward branches was the 1st April, 1891, not 18th June, 1883. The balance to the credit of the benefit branch on the 1st April, 1891, was £297,749 4s. 7d. The contributions to this branch, since that date, amount to £105,809 4s. 6d.; the disbursements from the same branch from the same date to £132,682 5s. 10d. The reward branch was opened without any balance on the division of the fund in April, 1891.