§ MR. JOHN ELLIS (Nottinghamshire, Rushcliffe)To ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what sums 103 have been paid out of the National Exchequer by way of Grants in aid or otherwise to the Protectorates of Somali-land, British Central Africa, East Africa, and Uganda (including in the latter the railway therein), respectively, during the financial year ended 31st March, 1902.
(Answer.) The grants in aid of the several Protectorates are respectively as follows: Somaliland, £60,000; British Central Africa, £50,000; East Africa Protectorate, £93,000; Uganda, £172,000. It is impossible to separate the expenditure on account of that part of the railway which was in Uganda from the expenditure on account of the part in East Africa; but for the whole railway the sums advanced during the period in question to meet expenditure under the Uganda Railway Acts amount to £870,000. I may add, in order to avoid misapprehension, that since the beginning of this year the boundary between the two Protectorates has been moved, so that the railway now lies wholly in East Africa.—(Foreign Office.)