HC Deb 27 November 1930 vol 245 cc1500-1
82. Mr. HERRIOTTS

asked the Minister of Health the total amount of money of which industrialists and others in the administrative county of Durham have been relieved in rates due to the Derating Act?

Mr. GREENWOOD

The losses on account of rates in the administrative county of Durham as provisionally estimated, on the basis of the figures for the standard year, for the purposes of Part I of the Fourth Schedule to the Local Government Act, 1929, amount to £1,141,800, and the sums paid to the local authorities in the county over and above the sums required to make good the losses on account of rates and grants arising under the Act amount, as provisionally estimated, to an additional £261,260 apart from the mitigation of temporary loan liabilities provided for in Section 114 of the Act.

85. Mr. LEES

asked the Minister of Health the total amount of money of which industrialists and others in the administrative county of Derbyshire have been relieved in rates due to the De rating Act?

Mr. GREENWOOD

The losses account of rates in the administrative county of Derby as provisionally estimated, on the basis of the figures for the standard year, for the purposes of Part I of the Fourth Schedule to the Local Government Act, 1929, amount to £367,581, and the sums paid to the local authorities in the county over and above the sums required to make good the losses on account of rates and grants arising under the Act amount, as provisionally estimated, to an additional £141,710.

Mr. MUGGERIDGE

Can the Minister of Health tell us whether there has been any improvement in trade in Derbyshire in consequence of the loss of this amount of rates?