§ 10. Sir JOHN SPEARasked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether he is aware that the Indian Blue Book, No. 155, Copy of the Indian Financial Statement and Budget for 1911–12, and discussions thereon in the Legislative Council of the Governor-General, contains no report of the Debate in the Legislative Council of the 9th March, 1911, on the Indian Cotton Duties, though it contains full reports of all the other Debates on the Budget on the 1st March, 7th March, 8th March, and 27th March, 1911; whether this omission was sanctioned by the Hon. W. H. Clark, Minister for Commerce and Industry; and whether any full official report of the Debate of the 9th March, 1911, is available to the pub ic in this country?
§ The FINANCIAL SECRETARY to the WAR OFFICE (Mr. Harold Baker)The Blue Book No. 155 contains full reports of the proceedings of the Legislative Council on those days on which the Financial Statement and the Budget were under discussion. Neither of those statements was under discussion on the 9th March, 1911, and that is why the Debates of that day were not included in the Papers sent home by the Government of India for presentation to Parliament and published as a Blue Book. The proceedings of the Viceroy's Legislative Council are on record in the India Office, and can be consulted in the Library of that Office.