§ Mr. A. SOMERVILLEasked the Secretary of State for India the total cost to the British Exchequer of the Statutory (Simon) Commission, including the cost of the Auxiliary Committee on Education, the Indian Central Committee, and the Provincial Committees, and also of printing and publishing the several reports issued by them.
§ Sir S. HOAREThe total cost to the British Exchequer of the inquiries of the Indian Statutory Commission and its auxiliary inquiries was a contribution of £80,000. The cost estimated by the Stationery Office of printing and publishing the two volumes of the Commission's report and the three supplementary volumes of reports referred to in the question was £10,461, but the whole of this latter sum has been more than covered by sale-proceeds.