Sir GILBERT PARKERasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he can state what has been the annual increase in the Estimates of each Government Department since 1875; and whether he could generally state the causes for these increases?
§ Mr. HOBHOUSEThe hon. Member will find the figures he requires succinctly set out in the analytical tables which precede the printed Estimates for each year, the causes of the respective increases being briefly described in the memoranda which accompany them. It would not be possible to give the figures in detail or to attempt any general description of the various causes which have contributed to the increases under the several Votes within the limits of an answer to a Parliamentary question.