§ MR. AUSTIN TAYLOR (Liverpool, East Toxteth)To ask the Secretary of State for the Colonies what was the total sum on which any commission was charged by the Crown Agents in 1903 on behalf of the forty-four colonies and protectorates for whose commercial and financial business they are responsible; 18 what was the total amount of commission so charged; and what was the separate total debited and commission charged to each colony and protectorate.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Lyttelton) I shall be prepared to give this information, but it has not been found possible 19 to complete the compilation of the details. In the meantime I may mention that the total receipts of the Crown Agents' Office, derived partly from commissions and partly from other authorised charges against all the Governments for which they act, amounted in the year 1903 to £46,783 12s.