MR. GIBSON BOWLESI beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether he can state the total amount of rates paid by the Government on the houses of Representatives of Foreign Powers; which Representatives of Foreign Powers pay their own rates on their houses either in whole or in part, and what amount is paid by each; and which Representatives of Foreign Powers, if any, pay no rates at all?
*THE SECRETARY TO THE TREASURY (Sir J. T. HIBRERT,) OldhamThe net amount payable by the Government on this account for the present financial year is about £1,825. Representatives of Foreign Powers have no relief from rates, except on the terms of reciprocity, and then only for certain kinds of rates. I may say that, practically, all important Powers have agreed to the arrangement made by the late Government and embodied in the present Estimates.