§ MR. BUCHANAN (Perthshire, E.)To ask Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer will he issue as a Parliamentary Paper, or place copies in the Vote Office, of the Treasury regulations for the annual drawings of the new Exchequer bonds; and will the first million so drawn be paid off on 18th April, 1906.
(Answered by Mr. Austen Chamberlain.) The regulations contemplated by the Finance Bill will be drawn when the Bill has passed. They will be made public in the ordinary course as statutory rules, and copies can be made available for the House. As announced in the prospectus of the loan, the first million of the Exchequer bonds will be paid off on the 18th April, 1906.