MR. DUNDAS WHITE (Dumbartonshire)I beg to ask the President of the Local Government Board, in view of the decision in the case of Lord Fitzhardinge v. Purcell, 1908, 2 Ch. 139, that a private title had been proved to part of the foreshore of the Severn and that the public have no rights in respect of that foreshore except such as are incident to navigation, whether that foreshore is taken account of in the valuation list for rating purposes; if so, whether it is valued separately or is included with the adjacent property, and at what amount it is valued or what proportion of the valuation of the property as a whole is attributable to it.
§ THE PRESIDENT OF THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD (Mr. JOHN BURNS,) BatterseaI have made inquiry on this subject, and am informed that the foreshore affected by the decision in Lord Fitzhardinge v. Purcell is mostly situate in the Unions of Dursley and Wheatenhurst. According to the information I have at present received, it is not assessed for rating purposes in either union.
§ MR. JOHN BURNSI cannot say. I may say that the hon. Member for Cambridge has presented me with a handsomely bound volume containing a report of the case, and I hope to read it in the holidays.