§ Mr. MANDERasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury the total amount paid on behalf of the East Africa. Protectorate and Kenya Colony by the British taxpayer, showing the respective sums on account of the Uganda Railway, non-recoverable grants in aid, and remission of interest on loans; the amount paid to Kenya on account of the war in East Africa; and the amount of British credit at present involved in guaranteed loans to the Colony?
§ Mr. PETHICK - LAWRENCENonrecoverable grants in aid of administrative and railway deficits, to the total amount of £2,843,383, were issued to the East Africa Protectorate in the period from 1895 to 1912. There have been no such grants since. Under the authority of the Uganda Railway Acts, 1896 to 1902, sums amounting to £5,502,592 were issued to the Protectorate from the Consolidated Fund in the period from 1896 to 1905 for the construction of the Uganda Railway: and the sums so issued 229W were borrowed from the National Debt Commissioners by means of terminable annuities expiring in 1925. The payments, totalling £7,909,295, in respect of those annuities, as well as a sum of £20,000 for preliminary expenses in connection with the railway, were met from moneys voted by Parliament for foreign and Colonial services. It was agreed in 1896 that until the money issued out of Consolidated Fund for the construction of this railway had been wholly repaid to the Exchequer, and thereafter until otherwise determined, the surplus profits of the railway should be paid over to the Exchequer save so far as they were, with the approval of the Treasury, applied for improving and developing the railway. Nothing has been paid over to the Exchequer on this account to date. It was agreed in 1924 that no claim would be made before 1934, when the matter will come up for consideration. The Kenya share of the expenditure from Imperial funds in connection with the war in East Africa was £1,405,016. It was agreed in 1924 that the question of the liquidation of this debt should be considered in 1934. In 1924, a Development Loan of £3,500,000 was issued to Kenya, free of interest for five years. The loan was repaid under discount in 1927 out of the proceeds of a public loan, and the amount repaid was
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Production of Coal in the United Kingdom, Europe and the United States during the years 1921 to 1930. Country. 1921. 1922. 1923. 1924. 1925. 1926. 1927. 1928. 1929. 1930. (Partly estimated). Million Statute Tons. United Kingdom (including Ireland). 163.3 249.6 276.0 267.2 243.3 126.4 251.3 237.6 258.0 243.8 Germany 134.0 127.9 61.3 116.9 130.5 143.0 151.1 148.4 160.8 140.4 France 27.8 30.6 37.1 43.3 46.3 50.6 51.0 50.5 52.9 53.0 Saar 9.4 11.1 9.0 13.8 12.8 13.5 13.4 12.9 13.4 13.0 Belgium 21.4 20.9 22.6 23.0 22.7 24.9 27.1 27.1 26.5 30.0 Netherlands 3.9 4.5 5.2 5.8 6.7 8.5 9.2 10.5 11.4 12.0 Poland 29.4 34.1 35.5 31.8 28.6 35.2 37.5 40.0 45.5 37.0 Soviet Union (Russia)† 8.5 8.6 14.3 13.8 14.7 23.1 29.4 31.7 34.8* 45.9 Czechoslovakia 11.8 10.3 11.4 14.9 12.4 14.0 13.8 14.3 16.5 14.3 Spain 4.9 4.4 5.9 6.0 6.0 6.4 6.5 6.3 6.9 7.2 Rest of Europe 1.7 2.5 2.5 2.5 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.7 3.0* 2.8 Total Continental Europe 252.8 254.9 204.8 271.8 283.2 321.8 341.7 344.4 371.7 355.6 United States 452.0 425.7 587.4 510.4 519.5 587.3 533.8 514.4 543.6 474.5 * Provisional and subject to correction. † Years ended 30th September. £3,280,467. Apart from this, and subject to the foregoing remarks on Uganda Railway advances and War expenditure debt, there has been no remission of interest on loans. And none of the Colony's loans have been guaranteed by the Imperial Government.