HC Deb 29 March 1883 vol 277 cc992-3
MR. ARTHUR ARNOLD

asked the Secretary to the Treasury, What is the total number and aggregate value of estates registered in the Office of Land Registry during the year ended 31st December 1882?

MR. HERBERT GLADSTONE

The total number of dealings with estates at the Land Registry in the year 1882 was 648; and the value of those placed on the register (in the technical sense) was £1,103,000. But the number placed on the register for the first time was only 14, and their value about £120,000.

MR. ARTHUR ARNOLD

said, that in Committee of Supply he should call attention to the fact that only 14 estates had been registered during the past year, and that he should move a reduction of £2,000 on the Vote.