§ 47. Mr. HERBERT WILLIAMSasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what provision has been made in the estimates of the current year for Exchequer grants of all kinds to the local authorities; and, in preparing these estimates, what sum was assumed to be the probable receipts from rates of the local authorities during the same period?
§ Major ELLIOTThe amount included in the Parliamentary estimates of the current year for Exchequer grants of all kinds to local authorities is approximately £124,300.000. This figure excludes grants from the normal revenue of the Road Fund, and a grant of £700,000 from the Consolidated Fund in respect of tithe, which do not appear in the Estimates. I regret that it is not possible to give 918 an estimate of the probable receipts from rates of local authorities during the same period.