§ MR. W. F. D. SMITH (Strand, Westminster)To ask the President of the Local Government Board if he will grant a Return showing, since 1895, the total amount of money expended and the rate in the pound raised for all county purposes, including education, in the county of London, and for all local purposes by vestries and borough councils, respectively.
(Answered by Mr. Gerald Balfour.) The following statement containing particulars
† See (4) Debates, cxliii., 952.299 extracted from the published Local Taxation Returns will, I hope, give
| Year. | ||||||||||||||||
| 1895–6. | 1896–7. | 1897–8. | 1898–9. | 1899–1900. | 1900–1901. | 1901–2, | 1902–3. | |||||||||
| Expenditure. | £ | £ | £ | £ | £ | £ | £ | £ | ||||||||
| London County Council (excluding capital expenditure and loans to other local authorities) | *†2,450,822 | *†2,521,231 | *†2,597,408 | *†3,377,470 | *†3,832,786 | *†4,153,663 | *†4,274,288 | *†4,575,077 | ||||||||
| London School Board (excluding capital expenditure) | 2,208,640 | 2,355,828 | 2,419,364 | 2,545,192 | 2,698,351 | 2,828,502 | 3,003,976 | 3,136,634 | ||||||||
| Metropolitan Vestries and District Boards † and Metropolitan Borough Councils (excluding expenditure out of loans and payments under precept to other local authorities) | 2,657,948 | 2,847,212 | 3,096,257 | 3,244,255 | 3,485,155 | 4,010,403 | 4,316,044 | 4,644,797 | ||||||||
| Average rate in the £ of rates raised for the purposes of— | s. | d. | s. | d. | s. | d. | s. | d. | s. | d. | s. | d. | s. | d. | s. | d. |
| London County Council | 1 | 2.9 | 1 | 2.9 | 1 | 1.8 | 1 | 1.8 | 1 | 1.3 | 1 | 2.3 | 1 | 3.0 | 1 | 3.3 |
| London School Board | 10.3 | 1 | 0.1 | 1 | 0.9 | 11.7 | 1 | 0.9 | 1 | 1.7 | 1 | 2.4 | 1 | 2.7 | ||
| Metropolitan Vestries and District Boards† | §1 | 5.9 | §1 | 6.0 | §1 | 6.6 | §1 | 6.2 | §1 | 7.0 | §1 | 7.7 | — | — | ||
| Metropolitan Borough Councils | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | 10.5 | 2 | 0.1 | |||||||
| *Excluding in 1895–6, £231,061; in 1896–7, £238,572; in 1897–8, £246,919; in 1898–9, £250,803; in 1899–1900, £253,815; in 1900–1901, £256,507; in 1901–2, £269,427; and in 1902–3, £273,931, distributed by the London County Council to sanitary authorities in London, under the London (Equalisation of Rates) Act, 1894. The expenditure in respect of these sums is included in the statement under the heading Metropolitan Vestries and District Boards, etc. | † Excluding for the years 1895–6 to 1897–8 sums transferred by the London County Council to their Consolidated Loans Fund. Such sums are, for 1898–9 and later years, included in the statement. They amounted in the year 1898–9 to £588,320. | |||||||||||||||
| † Including the Woolwich Local Board of Health. | ||||||||||||||||
| § Excluding, for the years 1895–6 to 1900–1, the average rates in the pound of rates raised under the Burial Acts, the Baths and Wash houses Acts, and the Public Libraries Acts, |
§ my hon. friend the information he desires:—