§ MR. J. M. ROBERTSON (Northumberland, Tyneside)I beg to ask the Under-Secretary of State for India whether the arrangement between the Government of India and the Simla correspondent of the Daily Mail, under which the said correspondent is authorised to provide the Government of India with a daily service of news, has been confirmed or renewed; if so, for what period and at what remuneration; and whether the sanction of the Secretary of State has been given to any such arrangement.
§ MR. BUCHANANThe Gentleman with whom the arrangement referred to was made undertook as a condition of the agreement to sever his connection 1347 with the Daily Mail, and to supply no news to that or any other paper in the United Kingdom. The arrangement was made for three years from November, 1907, and has been approved by the Secretary of State. The monthly cost is £160, which is to cover all charges for the collection of news.