§ Mr. CLAUDE HAYasked the President of the Local Government Board if he will cause circular letters to be issued to the councils of those boroughs to which the Board's Order of 3rd December, 1908, extends and applies, enabling their accounts, including the accounts of tramway, light railway, water, gas, electric lighting, and other trading undertakings, to be kept and prepared for audit on the income and expenditure system; and whether he will cause the said Order to be amended accordingly, and to include detailed and aggregate balance sheets?
§ Mr. BURNSNo alteration of the Order of 3rd December, 1908, is necessary to enable the councils of the boroughs referred to in the question to keep their accounts on the system suggested, and I shall be happy to consider any communication which any of them may make to me as to the manner in which their accounts, should be kept.