§ MR. ROWNTREE (Scarborough)I beg to ask the President of the Local Government Board if the Government would assent to a Return showing the financial relationship of the Non-County Boroughs and the County Councils of the counties 506 in which they are situate during the past year, including the amount of the local taxation licences and of the Probate Duty raised in the said boroughs respectively, and also showing the total amounts received by the said boroughs in aid of their local taxation during the two years 1887 and 1888?
§ THE PRESIDENT OF THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD (Mr. RITCHIE, Tower Hamlets, St. George's)As regards the licences issued by the Inland Revenue officers, the difficulties of making such a Return as that suggested would be almost insuperable; and with respect to licences issued at post offices—amounting to nearly £900,000—it would be impossible to make the analysis which the Return would require. Neither would it be practicable to make any statement as to the Probate Duty raised in the different Non-County Boroughs.