HC Deb 08 March 1869 vol 194 c839
SIR JOHN SIMEON

said, he would beg to ask the President of the Poor Law Board, "Whether it is the intention of the Government to give effect to the recommendation made by the Select Committee on Poor Rate Assessments, to the effect that Local Collectors should be appointed to collect the Local Rates and the Taxes payable by the Taxpayers resident in the parish?

MR. GOSCHEN

, in reply, said, he thought the recommendation of the Select Committee in question was most valuable, but he was afraid that effect could not be given to it this Session. It formed part of the whole subject of-the machinery of local taxation, the importance of which the Government fully recognized, and was also connected with the task of reducing to something like order the present chaotic state of local finance. The Government was fully alive to the importance of that matter.