§ MR. SWIFT MACNEILLOn behalf of the hon. Member for East Mayo, I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland when the Report of the Local Government Board for Ireland, and the Returns of local taxation in Ireland for 1899 will be circulated.
§ MR. G. W. BALFOURThe Returns of local taxation for the period ended March, 1899, are being prepared and will, it is expected, be issued about the end of July next. The financial year being now 592 altered so as to end on the 31st March, the annual Report will be issued about six months later, and the Report published this year will not, consequently, be ready until October next. This Report will include two sets of tables—those relating to the financial year from March, 1899, to March, 1900, and those relating to the broken or transitory period from September, 1898, to March, 1899.