MR. HERBERT LEWIS&c.) (Flint,I beg to ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he is aware that in the Counties of Cardigan, Carmarthen, 811 Glamorgan, Merioneth, Montgomery, Monmouth, Pembroke, and Radnor, no property qualification is required for Commissioners of Land Tax, whereas in the other Welsh counties and in England a qualification of £100 a year in land is imposed; and whether he will take steps to redress this disparity, and to abolish the property qualification in the Counties of Anglesey, Brecknock, Carnarvon, Denbigh, and Flint, and in the English counties?
§ SIR W. HARCOURTThe facts are I believe as stated, but the hon. Member is aware that the Land Tax Commissioners are in no sense under, or connected with, the Executive Government. I daresay a reform of the Laud Tax Commission would be very desirable, but it is not a subject I could undertake to deal with in the present Session.