§ MR. WAUGHasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury, Why, in the Appropriation Accounts of the London Bankruptcy Court, credit is taken for £65,546 12s. 3d. for fees collected by stamps, showing a profit on that account of £8,595 148. 8d. whereas about £56,000 of those stamps represent the fees due to the country Courts of Bankruptcy, and cover the £46,517 16s. 11d, paid to the country registrars, leaving a profit of £9,482 3s. 1d. from those courts, instead of a loss of the above sum of £46,517 16s. 11d. and showing a loss on the London Bankruptcy Court of £47,404 5s. 4d?
§ MR. COURTNEYSir, the. hon. Member refers to the statements of gross and net cost appended to, but not part of, the Appropriation Accounts. These are prepared by the Controller and Auditor General. I think a blot has been hit in the bankruptcy figures; but I would point out, in justice to the Controller and Auditor General, that he has no means of knowing what proportion of the bankruptcy fee stamps represents work done in the County Courts. His attention has been called to the point.