§ MR. EUGENE WASON (Clackmannan and Kinross)To ask the Secretary for Scotland, what were the amounts provided in Scotland in each of the years 1905and 1906, or expended out of them, for education, Poor Law administration, registration of voters, and main roads, and what was the gross estimated rental and rateable value upon which such rates were levied.
§ (Answered by Mr. Sinclair.) According to the Local Taxation Returns for 1904–5, which will be shortly issued, the amounts raised by local rates in Scotland in that year for education was £1,084,791, and for Poor Law purposes £1,073,560. For the same year the expenditure in connection with the registration of voters is given as £30,873. The Returns do not distinguish expenditure on main roads, but the expenditure on maintenance of roads, streets, and bridges in the year (inclusive of the animal charge for interest and repayment of debt) was, according to the Returns, £1,052,097. The gross rental of Scotland for 1904–5 is returned as £30,877,840, while the assessable rental for Poor Law purposes was (a) in respect of the owners' rate, £25,242,471, and (b) in respect of the occupiers' rate, £22,256,763. Statistics for 1905–6 are not yet available.