Telegraph and Telephone Wires (Contributions to Rates).

HC Deb 19 May 1914 vol 62 c1782W

Mr. HOARE

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what was the last annual contribution made on account of Government property in the area of the administrative county of London to the rates?

Mr. LLOYD GEORGE

The total of the contributions paid to local authorities in the administrative county of London from the Rates Vote during 1913–14 was £308,202, and from the Post Office Vote for telegraph and telephone wires, £30,659.