§ Mr. R. PEARCE (Staffordshire, Leek)To ask Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer whether the £10,000,000 of annual income of public charities in the legal sense exempted from income or property tax for the financial years ending March, 1905 and 1906, includes hospitals and friendly societies; and, if so, whether he can state the amount of such income for those years, excluding hospitals and friendly societies.
(Answered by Mr. Asquith.) The£10,000,000 does include the income of hospitals and friendly societies, so far as such income would, if not specially exempted, be assessable to the tax, but the amount of such income cannot be separated from the total.