§ MR. ROBYI beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether throughout Parliamentary Paper, No. 287 of the present Session (Revenues of the Church of England), tithe rent-charge is taken at par value: and whether interest on Consols is taken at 3 per cent.?
§ MR. MATTHEWSI am informed by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners that tithe rent-charge has been taken at par value, except in the Parts 1 and 4, namely, in the estates managed by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners and of their own estates. In these the value has been taken at £93 17s. 3d., the value for the year 1885–6, upon which that part of the Return is based. The interest upon Government securities has been taken at 3 per cent., the Return having reference to a date prior to the conversion of Consols.