§ MR. GINNELLTo ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland if he will supply details of the sum of £7,000 stated in the Civil Service Estimates, Class 3, Vote 14, Sub-head F, to have been spent last year, so that Parliament may know how it has been spent before voting the similar sum asked for this year under the same sub-head.
§ (Answered by Mr. Birrell.) The hon. Member is mistaken in supposing that the sum of £7,000 is stated to have been spent under the subhead quoted in the last financial year. That sum was provided in last year's Estimates, but the accounts for the year have not yet been passed. The amount expended will appear in the Appropriation Accounts in due course. The hon. Member will find it stated in the Estimates that the provision under Sub-head F is for—Fees to counsel, other than the Law Officers, for conducting Crown prosecutions, etc., also for representing the Attorney-General on the trial of election petitions. The bulk of the expenditure under this sub-head consists of foes to Crown counsel for conducting the ordinary prosecutions at assizes.