§ MR. SEARS (Cheltenham)To ask Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer whether the clearing up of arrears of income-tax by officers of Inland Revenue is confined to those districts in which the collection of income tax is undertaken by the Department, or whether surveyors of taxes have also to deal with schedules of persons in default from whom payment has been demanded by parochial collectors; and whether they are enjoined by their instructions to request payment from persons named by the parochial collector as in arrear; and, if not, when the instruction was cancelled.
(Answered by Mr. Asquith.) When the duties have not been collected within the prescribed time the instructions of the collector require him to report such persons as are in arrear to the surveyor, who is then required to issue notices to the defaulters in a prescribed form demanding that payment should be made to the collector. Surveyors are not
§ in the Royal Dockyards and private yards, respectively, on the 1st April 1900, 1901, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1905, and 1906.
§ (Answered by Mr. Edmund Robertson.) Number of battleships and cruisers, respectively, of over 5,000 tons, under construction for the Royal Navy in the Royal Dockyards and private yards, respectively, on the 1st April 1900, 1901, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1905, and 1906:—
§ enjoined by their instructions to request payment from persons named by the parochial collector as in arrear, nor is payment to a surveyor permitted.