§ MR. FIELD (Dublin, St. Patrick)To ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether he can state the average annual amount of the revenue receipts during the past ten years, the number of the Controller and Auditor-General's officers employed in auditing those receipts, and the number of weeks in each year during which each of those officials are so employed, and the number of officials in this department at work in Ireland.
(Answered by Mr. Victor Cavendish.) The average annual amount of the 716 revenue receipts (including local taxation revenue) during the past ten years was £124,079,562. A test audit only is given to revenue receipts. Nine officials of the Exchequer and Audit Department are engaged in auditing them, and the total time occupied by the audit is equivalent to sixty weeks for one man. Three officers are employed in Ireland upon the audit of revenue, and are occupied for a time amounting to three weeks in all.