§ MR. WEIR (ROSS and Cromarty)To ask the Secretary of State for India, in view of the fact that £109,700,320 was spent on public works, railways, and irrigation in India between 31st March 1875, and 31st March, 1900, will he state the approximate revenue derived during that period from each of these three sources.
(Answered by Secretary Lord George Hamilton.) The information will be found in the following Papers which have been presented to Parliament, viz.:—
Parliamentary Paper, No. 172, of 1886, East India, Financial Statement.Parliamentary Paper, No. 217, of 1894, East India, Income and Expenditure.Parliamentary Paper, No. 93, of 1902, East India, Income and Expenditure.† See (4) Debates cvi., 731.