§ MR. WEIRI beg to ask the President of the Board of Trade, having regard to the fact that a sum of £12,500 is placed on the Estimates for the current year for North Sea Fisheries investigation, Class 4, Vote 6 (Scientific Investigation), will he state the entire sum expended by His Majesty's Government up to the present time on North Sea Fisheries investigation, and what sum has been expended up to the present time by each of the other Powers participating in the investigation, seeing that this information is not contained at page 41 of Command Paper 2966 of 1906.
§ SIR EDWARD STRACHEY (Somersetshire, S.)Perhaps I maybe allowed to answer this Question. The amount expended by the Government on North Sea Fisheries investigations during the five years which end in July next will have been about £70,000. Information as to the estimated expenditure of other Powers will be found on pages 112 to 115 of Command Paper 1313 of 1903.