§ 1. Mr. Dayasked the Under-Secretary of State for India the amounts charged in the accounts, for the 12 months ended to the last convenient date, of payments made in Great Britain to officers in the Indian Civil and Military Services?
The Under-Secretary of State for India (Lord Stanley)The total amount brought to charge during the year 1937–38 through the accounts of the Secretary of State for India, the Secretary of State for Burma and the High Commissioner for India, in respect of pay, leave pay, overseas pay, outfit allowances, unemployed pay, pensions and gratuities of officers of the Indian Civil and Military Services was £6,511,583. This figure does not include the amounts paid to the War Office and the Air Ministry for the Indian share of the pensions of officers of the British Army and the Royal Air Force, or the leave pay of officers of British regiments.