HC Deb 24 April 1876 vol 228 cc1577-8
MR. MORGAN LLOYD

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, If his attention has been called to the numerous errors and mistakes contained in the "Return of Owners of Land, England;" and, whether it is the intention of the Government to take steps with a view to make the necessary corrections in such Return?

MR. SCLATER-BOOTH (for Mr. ASSHETON CROSS),

in reply, said, that since the Return in question had been presented, the attention of his Department had been called officially to some inaccuracies—not a great number—contained in it, and they had been carefully noted, in case it should hereafter seem expedient to issue a supplementary Return; but at present there was no such intention. It would be found, on refer- ence to the introductory remarks with which the Return was prefaced, that some such inaccuracies were anticipated as inevitable, regard being had to the state of the present valuation lists from which it was compiled.