§ Dr. ADDISONasked the Secretary of the Home Department if he is now in a position to announce the rate in the pound in respect of the police rate warrant to be issued on the 1st July next covering the expenditure for the six months to the 31st December, 1912, for the information of the councils of Metropolitan boroughs and the parishes within the Metropolitan police district; and whether he will cause a notification to be sent at the earliest possible date of the amount required to be levied by each rating authority in the aforesaid district?
§ Mr. McKENNAAs the law now stands the maximum rate on 1st July would be 3¼d., i.e., 2½d. for police purposes and ¾d. for the deficiency of the pension fund. But it should be clearly understood that this rate is not sufficient to provide either for the one day's rest in seven or for the normal augmentation of the force to meet the growth of population, without regard to the cost of any special emergency.