§ MR. SCHWANN (Manchester, N.)On behalf of the hon. Member for Bolton, I beg to ask the Secretary of State for India if there is any statement, either in the Public Accounts voted by this House or in the Home Accounts of the Government of India, which shows the disposal of the various sums, amounting to £287,000, which were recommended by the Royal Commission on Indian Expenditure in 1900 to be taken over or defrayed by Great Britain in relief of the Indian finances.
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIA (Lord G. HAMILTON,) Middlesex, EalingThe statement showing the disposal of £257,500, not £287,000, granted as a relief to the Indian revenues in the apportionment of the Home Charges, is given on page 8 of Parliamentary Paper 387 of 1900 (Session 2).