§ MR. EUGENE WASON (Clackmannan and Kinross)To ask the Secretary of State for India, with regard to the memorial urging the separation of judicial and executive functions in Indian administration, presented in August, 1899, can some statement be placed before Parliament showing what course has been followed since that memorial was forwarded to the Indian Government, and what is the general view taken of this subject by that authority; and can any of the more recent correspondence on this question between the Government of India and the Secretary of State be presented to Parliament at an early date.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Brodrick.) As I promised in my reply to the hon. Member for West Denbighshire, on the 23rd February† last, I wrote to the Government of India on the 10th March asking for a report of the results up to the present time of their consideration of the subject. I have not yet received a reply. There has been no other recent correspondence on this question between the Government of India and the Secretary of State.