§ MR. ROWLANDS (Kent, Dartford)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether he can say when the account of the receipts and payments of the Land Registry Office for the year ending 31st March will be issued, seeing that under the Act of 1867 they are required to be laid before Parliament one month after that date.
§ MR. HOBHOUSEIn order to prepare the Return which is annually presented it is necessary to obtain accounts from several Departments of the expenditure incurred by those Departments on behalf of the Land Registry. Expenditure incurred so late as 31st March cannot always be verified and appropriated to the proper head of service in time to be presented by 30th April; but every effort will be made to complete the Return as soon as possible.