I beg to ask the Secretary of State for India whether any arrangement has been come to for the inquiry as to the allocation of military charges between the India Office and the War Office.

It has been arranged to refer this question to a Committee, constituted as follows:—Chairman, The right hon. Sir R. Romer, G.C.B.; Members, Lord Welby, G.C.B.; The right hon. Gerald Balfour; and, representing the War Office, General Sir W. G. Nicholson, K.C.B., and Sir G. Fleetwood Wilson, K.C.B.; and representing the India Office, Sir John Edge K.C., and Lieutenant-General Sir Beauchamp Duff, K.C.B., K.C.V.O. It is expected that the Committee will commence its sittings this autumn.

asked whether another Office much concerned in this matter—the Treasury—might not have a representative on the Committee.

I have always found that the Treasury is extremely capable of taking care of itself.