§ MR. GINNELL (Westmeath, N.)To ask the Secretary to the Treasury if he will state under the respective heads of loss, all the financial losses incurred n connection with land purchase in Ireland in the three months ending 30th June 1907, and the total loss from 1st November 1903 to 30th June 1907.
(Answered by Mr. Runciman.) The figures given below complete up to date the information with which I have furnished the hon. Member on the 2nd May last.† To these should be added the sum of £102,000 appropriated from the amount paid from the Ireland Development Grant to the income account of the Irish Land Purchase Fund, as was explained to the hon. Member in a reply given by my right hon. friend the Chief Secretary on the 19th ultimo.
§ and the amount, if any. defrayed from other sources.
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(Answered by Mr. Runciman) I am not sure that I understand what section of the British Museum the hon. Member has in his mind, but I am informed that any inquiry respecting the cost of a particular section over a number of years would be
†See (4) Debates, Clxxiii., 1040.
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extremely laborious, and I see no sufficient reason for asking that it should be undertaken.