§ MR. McKENNA (Monmouth, N.)I beg to ask the President of the Board of Agriculture whether he can state the number of cases in which the amount of tithe rent-charge not severed from a benefice exceeds £1,000, exceeds £500 and does not exceed £1,000, and exceeds £100 and does not exceed £500 respectively, and the total amount of the tithe rent-charge in each of the categories named.
§ * THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE (Mr. LONG,) Liverpool, W. DerbyI regret that it is not possible for me to give the information desired by the hon. Member in the precise form in which he asks for it, but I may state as the result of inquiries which I recently made that in 255 cases the rateable value of the tithe rent-charge attached to a benefice was found to exceed £500, in 273 cases it exceeded £400, and did not exceed £500, whilst in 7,263 cases it did not exceed £160, and in 2,700 cases, although it exceeded £160, it did not exceed £400. There were therefore, 10,236 cases below £500, and 255 cases above it.