§ Mr. LEES SMITHasked the President of the Local Government Board what was the total sum raised in rates, during the last year for which Returns are available, upon all land which was rated under the Agricultural Rates Act of 1896?
§ Mr. BURNSThere are no returns which show the total sum actually raised in England and Wales from the occupiers of agricultural land by rates to which the Agricultural Rates Act, 1896, applies. On the basis of the average rates levied in the year 1910–11 in the rural and urban parts of the country the estimated total sum raised in that year was about £2,400,000.