§ Sir FREDERICK BANBURYasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he can state how much the stamp of 6d. on allotment letters brings in, and what it brought in during the last financial year when it was 1d.?
§ Mr. HOBHOUSEI am unable to give the information asked for in the first part of the question as the official records do not distinguish between the 6d. and the 1d. stamp on letters of allotment. In the last complete year (1898–9), in which the duty on all letters of allotment was 1d., the produce of the tax amounted, approximately, to £2,000.