§ MR. DIXON-HARTLAND (Middlesex, Uxbridge)I beg to ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether, in view of the fact that, if ratepayers in a county take out licences for dogs, guns, carriages, armorial bearings, and male servants at post offices out of the county, the proceeds of these licences will be lost to the county, some arrangement cannot be made by which the proceeds of licences so taken out shall be allocated to the county in which the person paying for the licences resides?
§ * MR. GOSCHENI must point out to the hon. Member that the question is as broad as it is long. If a county suffers by some of its ratepayers taking out licences in another county, it may, on the other hand, gain by the ratepayers of other counties taking out licences within its limits. The fact, moreover, that people are often ratepayers in two or even more counties would operate against the method proposed in the question.
§ MR. DIXON-HARTLANDIs the right lion. Gentleman prepared to receive information on the subject? The matter is one which presses very hardly on the County of Middlesex, as most of the licences are taken out in London.
§ * MR. GOSCHENOf course, I shall be very glad to recieve information; but I cannot accept the reason given by the hon. Gentleman.