HANSARD 1803–2005 → 1900s → 1902 → October 1902 → 28 October 1902 → Commons Sitting → (2.15.) QUESTIONS IN THE HOUSE.

South Africa—Concentration Camps— Cost of Maintenance since the War.

HC Deb 28 October 1902 vol 113 c944 944

§ MR. WEIR
I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Colonies if he will state out of what fund the concentration camps have been maintained since the termination of the war.

§ THE SECRETAEY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES (Mr. J. CHAMBERLAIN, Birmingham, W.)
The cost of the concentration camps has been met out of Army funds since the 31st of May, as before; a sum of £1,200,000 was provided for the maintenance of the camps in Army Votes 1902–3.