§ 28. Mr. Platts-Millsasked the Minister of Health if he will publish a list setting out the rates for each Metropolitan borough for the years 1947–48 and 1948–49; and the sums to be contributed to, and received from, the Rate Equalisation Fund by Metropolitan borough councils, respectively, for the year 1948–49.
§ Mr. BevanParticulars of the rates levied for the year 1948–49 and the sums to be contributed by the City of London and each metropolitan borough under precept to the London County Council in consequence of payments by the County Council under the proposed scheme under section 10 of the Local Government Act, 1948, are not yet available. The following is a statement showing for the City of London and each Metropolitan borough the rate levied in 1947–48 and the amount, if any, estimated to be payable by the London County Council in the year 1948–49 under a proposed scheme to be made by the Minister under section 10 of the Local Government Act after consultation with the London County Council, the Common Council of the City of London and 349W the Metropolitan Boroughs Standing Joint Committee.
Name of Authority. Rate Levied 1947–48 Amount, as provisionally calculated, payable by the London County Council in 1948–49 under a proposed scheme to be made by the Minister under section 10 of the Act. 1 2. 3. s. d. £ City of London 11 5 — Battersea 14 0 203,226 Bermondsey 20 0 262,280 Bethnal Green 23 0 204,211 Camberwell 15 0 215,932 Chelsea 13 6 — Deptford 18 0 157,735 Finsbury 15 6 — Fulham 15 2 162,775 Greenwich 16 4 169,406 Hackney 17 0 298,491 Hammersmith 16 10 161,207 Hampstead 12 6 — Holborn 14 0 — Islington 15 0 326,144 Kensington 14 6 — Lambeth 15 4 286,528 Lewisham 18 8 349,117 Paddington 16 6 57,060 Poplar 22 4 288,303 St. Marylebone 12 6 — St. Pancras 14 0 54,364 Shoreditch 18 0 95,010 Southwark:— St. George and Christchurch 16 11 177,534 St. Saviour 15 11 St. Mary, Newington 16 11 Stepney 18 6 239,843 Stoke Newington 17 6 71,872 Wandsworth 15 4 428,535 Westminster 11 0 — Woolwich 18 9 302,953