§ MR. DAVID MACIVER (Liverpool, Kirkdale)I beg to ask Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he can state how many persons in Great Britain and Ireland pay income tax, and, approximately, what proportion the total number of income-tax payers bears to the total adult population of the United Kingdom.
§ THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER (Sir M. HICKS BEACH,) Bristol, W.There are no actual statistics on this point, and I must decline to give figures which could be no more than a guess at the truth.