HC Deb 15 July 1908 vol 192 cc873-4
SIR F. BANBURY (City of London)

I beg to ask Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer whether £9,500,000 has been written off as a bad debt from sums advanced by the Treasury, the Public Works Loans Commissioners, the Commissioners of Public Works (Ireland), and the Irish Land Commission, to public bodies or private, persons in Ireland since 1881.

MR. HOBHOUSE (for Mr. LLOYD-GEORGE)

No, Sir. The amount of the loans written off in that period is £1,744,427.

SIR F. BANBURY

Has the hon. Gentleman added together the amounts in the Paper to which I was referred last night, and is this the correct total?

MR. HOBHOUSE

I have looked carefully through the amounts submitted to me, and this is the total.

SIR F. BANBURY

Has the hon. Gentleman added them up or is that beyond his power?

[No Answer was returned.]