asked the Vice-President of the Department of Agriculture (Ireland) if he can give the House any statistics or information as to the number of cases of foot-and-mouth disease in the various countries of Europe, including Ireland, during the last half of 1912?

My hon. Friend will find some statistics bearing upon this question in a reply given by my right hon. Friend the President of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries to a question put on 11th December last by the hon. Member for St. Patrick's Division, Dublin. The British and Continental figures are not quite comparable, the British and Irish figures dealing with outbreaks, those for foreign countries referring to places. In Great Britain there were nineteen outbreaks in 1911; eighty-three to 5th December, 1912. In Ireland, 1911, nil; sixty-eight to 30th November, 1912. The number of places infected on the Continent may be summarised thus:—

Belgium—
Fortnight ending Oct. 15th, 1911	1,069
Fortnight ending Oct. 15th, 1912	1
France—
October, 1911	14,115
October, 1912	3,459
Austria—
November 22nd, 1911	77,529
November 20th, 1912	694
Germany—
November 16th, 1911	30,444
November 16th, 1912	255
Hungary—
November 8th, 1911	21,267
November 6th, 1912	20

asked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland what were the expenses attaching to the office of Lord Lieutenant and paid out of public moneys for each of the twelve years to 1911, inclusive?

The expenditure from the Vote for the household of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in each of the past twelve financial years is as follows:—

				£	s.	d.
1900–1	…	…	…	4,753	4	0
1901–2	…	…	…	4,742	19	7
1902–3	…	…	…	4,762	0	5
1903–4	…	…	…	4,781	3	4
1904–5	…	…	…	4,763	11	0
1905–6	…	…	…	4,648	7	3
1906–7	…	…	…	4,526	7	5
1907–8	…	…	…	4,557	2	9
1908–9	…	…	…	4,626	0	7
1909–10	…	…	…	4,620	15	7
1910–11	…	…	…	4,652	17	8
1911–12	…	…	…	4,649	4	1

The purposes for which the above expenditure has been defrayed are shown in the Annual Estimates. A salary of £20,000 per annum, chargeable upon the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom, is paid to the Lord Lieutenant in pursuance of the Act 2 and 3 William IV. c. 116.