§ MR. FIELDTo ask the hon. Member for South Somerset, as representing the President of the Board of Agriculture, whether he can state what proportion of the item of £50,100 entered in Class I. of the Civil Service Estimates, under the service Publication of maps prepared and revised, is chargeable to the preparation of Irish maps, and how much of the amount is actually expended in Ireland; whether he can say how much of the amount of £82,200, entered against Completion of the re-survey of Ireland on the 25-inch scale, is expended in Ireland; and whether, with reference to the item of £10,350, under F. Stores, etc., he can state what is the amount under this service expended in Ireland.
(Answered by Sir Edward Strachey.) Of the £50,100 provided in the Survey Estimate for 1906–7 for the publication of maps, £8,000 approximately is for the preparation of Irish maps, and about half that amount is actually spent in Ireland. Of the £82,200 provided for the completion of the re-survey of Ireland on the 25-inch scale, about £68,000 is expended in Ireland. Of the sum of £10,350 provided under Sub-head F for Stores, etc., about £400 is spent in Ireland, the greater part of the expenditure being special stores, which are only obtainable from a limited number of contractors. I may add that the gross expenditure of the survey as a whole for the year 1905–6 is divisible as follows—
| £ | |
| England | 104,590 |
| Scotland | 23,000 |
| Ireland | 95,880 |
§ The expenditure in respect of Ireland was nearly 43 per cent. of the whole.