§ Mr. NEWMANasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will state, approximately, how many hereditaments or identification numbers there are in the rural districts and in the urban districts, respectively, in Ireland?
§ Mr. LLOYD GEORGEThe numbers are, in the rural districts, 1,100,000; in the urban districts, 330,000.
§ Mr. NEWMANasked (1) how many gross and full site values the permanent rating valuers of the. General Valuation Office, Ireland, have fixed over and above the 6,000 complete provisional valuations which they made; and (2) in how many of the 2,330 Estate Duty valuations hitherto made in Ireland since the Finance (1909–10) Act, 1910, passed, all the original provisional valuations of the hereditaments covered by them have been issued; and by what date the remaining provisional valuations of those Estate Duty cases may be expected to be issued?
§ Mr. LLOYD GEORGEThe statistics asked for could not be prepared without considerable expenditure of time and money, and when prepared would not, in my judgment, serve any useful purpose.