§ Mr. BUTCHERasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether, in view of the fact that a Departmental Committee in 1895 recommended the abolition of the Hackney Carriage Tax, and that a Select. Committee of the House of Commons appointed in 1906 expressed their agreement with this recommendation, and urged that it should be carried into effect, and in view of the fact that the owners and drivers of horse-drawn hackney carriages are suffering 498W from the competition of mechanically propelled vehicles, he will consider the advisability of abolishing the tax on horse-drawn hackney carriages?
§ Mr. LLOYD GEORGEI can add nothing to my reply of Thursday last to my hon. Friend the Member for York.