§ MR. JOHN ELLISI beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what have been the total sums voted or to be voted up to the 31st Mareh, 1901, in respect of the British Central African, East African, and Uganda Protectorates (including the purchase of the interests of any Chartered Companies), and what is the total sum advanced, or proposed to be advanced, up to 31st Mareh, 1901, in respect of any railways or other public works in the above Protectorates.
*THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS Viscount CRANBORNE,) RochesterThe grants in aid of the revenues of the several Protectorates, including Somaliland, and of the Uganda Railway are as follows:— British Central Africa, £239,700; East Africa Protectorate, £793,675 (including £50,000 paid to the Imperial British East Africa Company for surrender of its charter, etc., and also including the Supplementary Vote before. Parliament for £149,000); Somaliland Protectorate (Supplementary Vote, before Parliament), £60,000; Uganda Protectorate, £1,222,400; Uganda Railway, £3,999,000 — total, £6,314,775.
§ MR. LABOUCHERE (Northampton)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he can state what has been spent of public money during the last ten years on British East Africa, Uganda, Somaliland, and the minor Protectorates in the neighbourhood of these countries.
§ *VISCOUNT CRANBORNEThe terms of this question are covered by the answer already given to the hon. Member for the Rushcliffe Division of Nottingham. The figures given include all grants made in respect of the Protectorates and railway. These grants go back to 1894 only, covering therefore a period not of ten but of seven years.