§ MR. CAINEI beg to ask the Secretary of State for India whether he 1447 will state when the Indian Budget Papers will be placed before Parliament, and by what date the issue may be expected of the Explanatory Memorandum relating to the Financial Statement placed before the Supreme Legislative Council at Calcutta on 21st March; and will the total figures in that Memorandum be expressed in tens of rupees (Rx.) so that comparison can be made between the current Financial Statement and those of 1900 or previous years.
§ LORD G. HAMILTONCopies of the Financial Statement in India, and of the debate thereon, may be expected in time to be laid before Parliament in the second week of May. The Explanatory Memorandum will, it is hoped, be ready towards the end of June or early in July. It will not be prepared in tens of rupees, but in pounds, as on the last two occasions, so that, by means of the Returns of Income and Expenditure, the figures can be readily compared with those for any year from 1888–9 onwards.