§ Ms. BENN (Devonport)I beg to ask the President of the Local Government Board whether he can state the amount in the pound of rates levied by an equal pound rate over the whole county of London for the purposes of the Metropolitan Common Poor Fund and the Equalisation Fund, and applied to meet expenditure incurred locally by the guardians and the metropolitan borough councils.
§ * THE PRESIDENT OF THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD (Mr. GEEALD BALFOUR,) Leeds, CentralTaking the last year in respect of which the claims of the boards of guardians on the Metropolitan Common Poor Fund have been dealt with, the expenditure of the guardians and the Corporation of the City of London and the borough councils which, by the operation of that fund and the Equalisation Fund, was borne equally by 450 the whole of the administrative county of London, represents the produce of a rate of Is. 3.2d. in the £ on the assessable value of the county.