§ MR. SYDNEY BUXTON (Tower Hamlets, Poplar)To ask the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he will state the total amount of Grants in Aid for Somaliland already voted; and the particulars of the various Votes and the dates on which they were voted.
4 (Answered by Earl Percy.) The Grants in Aid already voted have been as follows:—1900–1, £60,000, Grant in Aid of Military Expenses; 1902–3, £25,000, in aid of Military Expenses; 1903–4, £50,000, in aid of Military Expenses and to meet the cost of buildings taken over from the Government of India on the transfer of the Protectorate in 1898; 1904–5, £24,600, in aid of Military Expenses. The dates of the various Votes, as given in Hansard, appear to be:—1900–1, March 19th,1901; 1902–3, August 4th,1902; 1903–4, August 10th,1903; 1904–5, August 9th,1904.