§ Mr. NEWMANasked the Prime Minister whether, in determining the relative taxable capacities of the three kingdoms of the present Union of Great Britain and Ireland, he was prepared to allow such taxable capacity to be based on the percentages of population, assessment to Income Tax, liability to Estate Duty, estimated wealth, and estimated national income of each component kingdom to the United Kingdom as a whole; and whether, should such method of calculation be adopted, he could, from the Census Returns of 1911 and Revenue Returns of 1909–10 and 1910–11, state the taxable capacity of each of the three kingdoms as a percentage of the whole?
§ The PRIME MINISTERI cannot undertake to make any calculation on the basis suggested by the hon. Member.