Captain MORRISON-BELLasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he is aware that by fixing, under the Finance (1909–10) Act, 1910, and the Revenue Act, 1911, the amounts to be paid to local authorities in respect of Motor Car and Carriage Licence Duties at the actual sum collected in the year 1908–9, a loss of revenue as compared with 1909–10 is incurred by a large majority of the county councils of England and Wales, amounting in the case of Devonshire to about £4,000 per annum; and whether, in view of the promise made by the then Chancellor of the Exchequer on the Budget in 1907, and the intention of Parliament, as shown by Section 17 of the Finance Act, 1907, that county councils were not to be deprived of the natural growth of local taxation licences, steps will be taken on the consideration of the Finance Bill of the present Session to ensure that the annual amounts payable to the county councils in respect of such licences shall not be less than the amounts which would have been payable if the before-mentioned provisions of the Finance (1909–10) Act, 1910, and the Revenue Act, 1911, had not been passed?
§ Mr. LLOYDasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he is aware that by fixing, under the Finance (1909–10) Act, 1910, and the Revenue Act, 1911, the amounts to be paid to local authorities in respect of motor car and carriage licence duties at the actual sum collected in the year 1908–9, a lost revenue, as compared with 1909–10, 716W is incurred by a large majority of the county councils of England and Wales, amounting in the case of Staffordshire to nearly £5,000 per annum; and whether, in view of the promise made by the then Chancellor of the Exchequer on the Budget in 1907, and the intention of Parliament, as shown by Section 17 of the Finance Act, 1907, that county councils were not to be deprived of the natural growth of local taxation licences, steps will be taken, on the consideration of the Finance Bill of the present Session, to ensure that the annual amounts payable to the county councils in respect of such licences shall not be less than the amounts which would have been payable if the before-mentioned provisions of the Finance (1909–10) Act, 1910, and the Revenue Act, 1911, had not been passed?
§ Mr. HICKS BEACHasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he is aware that by fixing, under the Finance (1909–10) Act, 1910, and the Revenue Act, 1911, the amounts to be paid to local authorities in respect of motor car and carriage licence duties at the actual sum collected in the year 1908–9, a loss of revenue as compared with 1909–10 is incurred by a large majority of the county councils of England and Wales, amounting in the case of Gloucestershire to over £2,000 per annum; and whether, in view of the promise made by the then Chancellor of the Exchequer on the Budget in 1907, and the intention of Parliament, as shown by Section 17 of the Finance Act, 1907, that county councils were not to be deprived of the natural growth of local taxation licences, steps will be taken on the consideration of the Finance Bill of the present Session to ensure that the annual amounts payable to the county councils in respect of such licences shall not be less than the amounts which would have been payable if the before-mentioned provisions of the Finance (1909–10) Act, 1910, and the Revenue Act, 1911, had not been passed?
§ Mr. LLOYD GEORGEThe matter is one which, I am informed, is receiving the attention of the Local Taxation Committee, and at the present time I am not prepared to give any undertaking of the nature suggested.