§ Mr. RENNIE SMITHasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs the actual cost of maintaining the military, naval and air services of Germany, exclusive of any payments to the Allies for military occupation, year by year since 1919, and the approximate values in English money?
Mr. LOCKER-LAMPSONThe figures, as far as it has been possible to procure them, are as follow, but their accuracy cannot be guaranteed:
Marks. 1919—Army and Navy … 1,118,189,655 1920—Army and Navy … 4,895,745,514 1921—Army … 2,677,618,642 Navy … 686,809,858 1922—Army … 1,852,515,466 Navy … 1,505,543,316 1923—Army … 23,355,624,000 Navy … 7,140,334,000 1924—Army … 348,282,880 Navy … 104,263,060 1925—Army … 406,222,930 Navy … 155,092,080 1926 (Estimates)—Army … 474,297,210 Navy … 203,328,400 There is no military air service in Germany. Owing to the fluctuations in the mark it is impossible to give the approximate values in English money of the above figures.