§ MR. J. M. ROBERTSONI beg to ask the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the sum of £50,000, officially announced in May last as voted by the Egyptian Ministry of Finances to meet the costs of movements of troops of the Army of Occupation in 1906, is in addition to the sum of £200,000 agreed upon to be paid by the Egyptian Government towards the costs of the Army of Occupation and in addition to the sum recently voted for the construction of new barracks at Cairo for the Army of Occupation.
§ SIR EDWARD GREYI have no information as to the £200,000 referred to in the Question. The sum payable by the Egyptian Government to meet the extra cost of maintaining the British forces in Egypt since 1st April last is £150,000 a year. Prior to that date it was £100,000 a year. In addition to the £100,000 paid for the financial year 1906-7, a sum of £52,000 was paid in respect of the increase of troops in 1906. The arrangements as to the construction of new barracks at Cairo are outside these figures.