§ SIR JOHN HAYasked the Secretary to the Treasury, If he will lay upon the Table, as a Supplement to Return No. 88, the number of Members of Parliament which each of the three divisions of the United Kingdom would obtain if the 658 Members were allotted, in accordance with the contribution of each to the Imperial Revenue?
§ LORD FREDERICK CAVENDISHThe information which the right hon. and gallant Member now asks was omitted at my request from the Return moved for by the hon. Member for Stafford. My reason for objecting to the insertion of it was, and is, that there are doubts how far the figures in the Returns represent the true incidence of taxation in the Three Kingdoms; and this being so, it is not advisable to insert in an official Return figures resting on an uncertain basis. Anyone who cares to do so can readily make the calculation for himself.