§ MR. LAYLAND-BARRATT (Devonshire, Torquay)To ask the President of the Local Government Board whether, if the persons responsible in a borough for the collection of rates, and who have not up to the present done so, decided to show on the demand note the amount required for particular purposes, including that of education, as is done in the cases of Plymouth, Truro, Exeter, Eastbourne, Leicester, Hove, Bournemouth, and other boroughs, the Local Government Board would interfere in any way to prevent this being done.
(Answered by Mr. Gerald Balfour.) The expenses of a town council for such purposes as education are usually payable out of the borough rate, and speaking generally the borough rate is payable out of the poor rate. The prescribed form of demand note for a poor rate requires the "borough rate" to be shown as one of 1078 the purposes for which the poor rate was made, and also the amount in the £ levied for this purpose. The Local Government Board have stated that the demand note should be issued in the prescribed form, and that the proportion of the rate in the £ in respect of so much of the borough rate as is levied to meet the expenses of the town council for particular purposes should not be specified separately upon the demand note.