§ 22. Mr. LOGAN(for Mr. THORNE) asked the hon. Member for Central Leeds, as representing the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, the income drawn by the Commissioners from lands in Paddington for each of the last three years and the corresponding average annual income for the five years 1900 to 1905?
§ Mr. DENMAN (Second Church Estates Commissioner)The income derived by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners from what is called the Clarendon Street Area, Paddington, leased to the Grand Junction Canal Company, is less than £200 per annum and has not varied for more than 100 years.
The income derived by the Commissioners from other property in the Borough of Paddington, most of which is of a high-class residential character, has been, during the last three years: 1930, £62,700; 1931, £69,500; 1932, £70,000. The average income for the five years 1900 to 1905, was £25,550.