§ Mr. D. G. SOMERVILLEasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether, seeing that exemption from the Dog Tax is granted only to farmers and shepherds in respect of dogs kept exclusively for attendance on sheep and cattle while cattle dealers or sheep dealers using their dogs for precisely similar purposes are compelled to take out licences, and that the animals are as much needed by the one class as by the other, he will arrange for them to be treated identically?
§ Major BOYD-CARPENTERThis is a matter which primarily concerns the local authorities, to whom the proceeds of these licence duties go in relief of local taxation, but as at present advised I fear that I cannot undertake to give favourable consideration to the change suggested in the question.