§ MR. DELANY (Queen's County, Ossory)To ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether any intimation was given, in or about February, 1903, to the Irish Agricultural Department that recurrent applications to the Treasury on behalf of their officers should cease, and that the sanctioned scales of pay should be left to their operation; and, if so, whether any such intimation was intended to apply generally; and, if not, to what particular officers or class of officers such intimation had reference.
(Answered by Mr. Victor Cavendish.) The letter to which the hon. Member refers related to the Estimates submitted by the Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction for the year 1903–4, and was of a confidential character. I cannot undertake to discuss the terms or purport of such a document in reply to a Question in this House.