35. Major C. LOWTHERasked the Prime Minister whether the Council of the League of Nations has approved a Budget for 1922 of expenditure of £1,388,000; and what will be the liability of Great Britain in this respect?
Mr. CHAMBERLAINThe League's Budget for 1922 forms one of the items on the agenda of the Council Meeting now being held at Geneva, but I have no information as to whether the item has yet been taken. As pointed out, however, to the hon. and gallant Member in answer to his question of the 8th instant, the expenditure of the League is decided by the Assembly and not by the Council, and the Budget for 1922 would not, therefore, in any case, become operative until it had received the approval of the Assembly.