§ MR. SEARS (Cheltenham)To ask Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will give the date when the Committee was appointed which considered the question of assessment and collection of death duties, which sat in 1898 under the chairmanship of the present Secretary of State for War; and where the evidence given and the Report of the Committee are to be seen.
(Answered by Mr. Asquith.) The Committee was appointed in 1898, and reported to the Treasury early in 1899. The Report was treated as confidential, in accordance with the practice usual in respect of the Reports of Departmental Committees on establishments, and was not published.