§ 23. Mr. BROCKLEBANKasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether any account is kept of assessments found to be excessive on legal grounds after the signing of the statutory certificates; and, if so, what was the sum involved in the last year?
§ The FINANCIAL SECRETARY to the TREASURY (Mr. Hore-Belisha)The only information available on the subject which I understand that my hon. Friend has in mind is that furnished by the Comptroller and Auditor-General in his Report on the Appropriation Accounts of the Revenue Department. My hon. Friend will find certain figures for the year to end of October, 1932, in paragraph 6 of the Comptroller and Auditor-General's Report for the year 1932 which was recently published as a White Paper.
§ Mr. BROCKLEBANKCan my hon. Friend give more details in the OFFICIAL REPORT of this large sum of £8,736,000?
§ Mr. HORE-BELISHAI do not quite follow what my hon. Friend means by details. The figure to which he has referred is in the publication mentioned as the total figure.
§ Mr. BROCKLEBANKCan my hon. Friend give some further information about this large figure?
§ Mr. HORE-BELISHAI will endeavour to give my hon. Friend any information which he particularises that he desires.