§ Commander BELLAIRSasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether the figures which have been put forward of savings on current Estimates of £40,000,000 and of further savings promised by the different Departments, prior to the Geddes Committee, the Irish settlement, and the Washington Conference, of £90,000,000 are savings on gross expenditure or savings on net expenditure after appropriations in aid have been allowed for?
§ Sir R. HORNEThe savings are in either case on net expenditure, but the figure of £90,000,000 ought, I think, to be £75,000,000, unless the hon. and gallant Member is including reductions proposed after the sketch Estimates were submitted to the Treasury in July.