§ MR. PICKERSGILL (Bethnal Green, S.W.)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether he will lay upon the Table of the House a Memorandum explanatory of the circumstances and principles upon which the Treasury have acted in fixing the net values of Government property in the County of London, upon which the contribution in lieu of rates is based?
§ SIR J. T. HIBBERTMy hon. Friend will find the information he desires in the Treasury Minute of June 25, 1874 (Parliamentary Paper No. 234 of that year), and a Memorandum read by the then Chancellor of the Exchequer in the House on the same day (Hansard, vol. 220, page 477). The valuations for the County of London have all been settled by the Treasury Valuer with the Assessment Committees of the several Unions, who have in every ease declared the valuations to be fair and reasonable.