§ MR. WEIRTo ask the Secretary of State for India whether he has yet received from the Government of India a Report on the proposals placed before him by the Famine Union, urging that 494 a local inquiry should be made in typical villages relative to the condition of the ryots; and, if not, will he state when he expects to receive the Report.
(Answered by Secretary Lord George Hamilton.) No Report on the subject has reached me yet, and I am unable to say when I shall receive one.