§ Mr. WILLIAM COOTEasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will state the amount of money grant made out of the National Exchequer funds for expenditure on roads and bridges in Great Britain for the year 1919–20, and also the amount granted to Ireland from the same source for the same period?
Mr. CHAMBERLAINGrants are being made for expenditure on roads and bridges in Great Britain during 1919–20 from the Road Improvement Fund, supplemented by a grant of £8,000,000 from voted moneys, conditional upon the execution by highway authorities of a specified programme out of their own resources. Grants will be made in respect of roads in Ireland upon the same condition up to a total of £300,000, in addition to grants from the existing fund and from the provision made for the relief of unemployment in Ireland.