§ Sir C. YATEasked the Secretary of State for India if his attention has been called to the report of the Inspector-General of Police in Bengal; and what steps it is proposed to take to provide funds sufficient to secure a well-paid and efficient police force there?
§ Mr. MONTAGUI have seen the annual administration report for the year 1920—the latest issued. The Bengal Government obtained all the supply for police for which they budgeted in the current year, and have power to appropriate whatever sums they regard as essential to the discharge of their responsibility for the service. Local circumstances, the results of local history, have restricted the revenues of Bengal with an even severer stringency than most Provincial Governments suffer from at the present time, but, such as they are, the local Governments must decide the best method of apportioning them between the various claims upon them.