Financial Statement and Budget Government of India. Finance Department for 1916-17

35 117-118 Financial Statement 1916-17— I.—General Statement of the Revenue and Expenditure charged to Revenue of the Government of India in India and in England. 38 II.—General Statement of the Receipts and Disbursments of the Government of India in India and in England. 40 11174 A.—Statement of the Revenue of India in India and in England. 42 fe B.—Statement of [...] 141 Speech of the Honourable Finance Member introducing the Budget for 1916-191.7. 167 Budget 1916-11.—General Statement of the Revenue and Expenditure charged to Revenue of the Government of India in India and in England II.—General Statement of the Receipts and Disbursments of the Government of India in India and in England A.—Statement of the Revenue of India in India and in [...] The scope for retardation of expenditure is of course much less on the Imperial than the Provincial side since the latter includes all the main heads of civil administration ; and in both cases it had already been restricted by the reduced allotments which we made in the budget of the current year. [...] Our Budget programme contemplated the continuance of the temporary loan of £7 million taken from the Gold Standard Reserve in the earlier months of the war and the renewal of the temporary debt also amounting to £7 million which had been raised by the Secretary of State in 1914-15 in the form of short-term India bills. [...] His Majesty's Government feel that the fiscal relationship of all parts of the Empire as between one another and the rest of the world must be reconsidered after the war and they desire to leave the question raised by the cotton duties to be considered then in connection with the general fiscal policy which may be thought best for the Empire and the share military and financial that has been