HC Deb 27 February 1896 vol 37 c1240
MR. H. LABOUCHERE (Northampton)

I beg to ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his attention has been called to the fact that, in cases where the application for the Queen's Taxes is not at once met with payment, collectors leave at the house where the application has been made an open paper in which it is stated that, unless the amount be paid or remitted within seven days from this date, there will be no alternative but to use the warrant which has been placed in their hands authorising and requiring them to obtain payment without further delay; and, whether he will cause such a change in these notices to be made as to render it clear that the warrant alluded to is not one that has been granted by a magistrate against any particular individual.

THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER

The form to which the hon. Member takes objection will be discontinued, and a new form substituted, in which the misleading term "warrant" is omitted, ["Hear, hear."]