§ MR. CAINE (Cornwall, Camborne)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for India, seeing that the Indian Government have decided to offer to the Presbyterian and Wesleyan bodies in India, grants-in-aid towards the erection of churches for their use, will he state whether those churches are intended to be used by those bodies instead of existing buildings, hitherto used by both Episcopalians and Nonconformists, and which have been erected at the public cost; and, whether Papers containing the reasons for, and the terms of, the Government proposal will be produced.
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIA (Lord G. HAMILTON,) Middlesex, EalingI understand that proposals of the kind suggested in the Question emanated in India from the religious bodies named, but I have not yet received them from the Government of India. If I do receive any such suggestions there will be no objection to making public my decision upon them by publishing the correspondence.