§ MR. WEIRTo ask the Secretary to the Treasury, in view of the fact that surveyors of Inland Revenue are employed by county councils and burgh councils in Scotland as assessors for the j purposes of the Land Valuation (Scotland) Act, 1854, and are subject to a number of different employers, will arrangements be made for these officers to be under the exclusive direction and control of the Inland Revenue.
(Answered by Mr Austen Chamberlain.) The existing system, as at present administered, is not found in practice to impair the authority of the Board of Inland Revenue over its officers; and I am not prepared to suggest that, when a local authority in Scotland appoints the Inland Revenue surveyor to be assessor under the Lands Valuation Acts, it should at the same time transfer to the Board of Inland Revenue its own functions under those Acts.