§ MR. SEARSTo ask Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer whether his attention has been drawn to the number of returns and accounts required annually at different periods from collectors of Inland Revenue; is he aware that sixty-eight collectors made from 150,000 to 200,000 such annual contributions, and that of these upwards of 35,000 go to the Accountant and Comptroller-General's Department in Somerset House; and will he cause inquiry to be made as to the usefulness of such returns, with a view to prevent unnecessary expenditure of official time and stationery.
(Answered by Mr. Lloyd-George.) I will cause inquiry to be made.