§ Mr. GINNELLasked the Secretary to the Treasury if he will state the amount of money applied for and the amount advanced in each of the 10 last completed financial years for financing land purchase in Ireland to all the authorities administering the Land Purchase Act?
§ Mr. BIRRELLThe amount of money applied for by the Land Commission for advances, and the advances made in money, under the Land Purchase Acts during each of the ten years referred to are as follows:—
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Financial Year. Amount. £ 1905–6 … … … 5,516,580 1906–7 … … … 5,941,348 1907–8 … … … 5,166,904
Financial Year. Amount. £ 1908–9 … … … 6,562,551 1909–10 … … … 7,061,902 1910–11 … … … 4,630,208 1911–12 … … … 4,295,697 1912–13 … … … 4,216,628 1913–14 … … … 4,818,358 1914–15 … … … 3,603,193 These figures are exclusive of a sum of £7,031,005 paid in cash as bonus percentage to vendors of estates under the said Acts during the years in question, and of a sum of £4,411,108 advanced in cash under the Labourers Act, 1906, out of the Land Purchase Fund during the nine years ended the 31st ultimo. In addition, advances amounting to £13,536,232 were made in stock under the Land Purchase Acts during the five years ended the 31st ultimo.
§ Mr. GINNELLasked the Secretary to the Treasury if he will state the total amount advanced for land purchase in Ireland under each of the enactments empowering such advance, with, in each case, the rate of interest, the amount of principal and of interest, respectively, repaid to 31st March, 1915, and the amount of principal outstanding at that date, showing the gross amount at each rate of interest where different rates are used under one enactment?
§ Mr. BIRRELLThe amounts advanced for land purchases in Ireland under the several Land Purchase Acts to 31st March last are as follows:—
Acts of 1870 £518,933 Acts of 1881 240,801 Acts of 1885–8 9,992,536 Acts of 1891–6 13,146,892 Acts of 1903–9 70,449,472 Labourers (Ireland) Act, 1906 4,411,108 £98,759,742 The particulars asked for in the concluding part of the question, in so far as they are available, are given in the published Annual Reports and Accounts of the Land and Estates Commissioners and the National Debt Commissioners, and cover the period up to the 31st March, 1911. The detailed particulars for the year ending 31st March last cannot yet be given.
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§ Mr. GINNELLasked the Chief Secretary if he will state the number of holdings purchased under the Land Purchase Acts vested in the purchasers, and the number of parcels of land vested, in each of the ten last completed financial years in each county and in the whole of Ireland by all the authorities administering the Land Purchase Acts?
§ Mr. BIRRELLThe number of holdings and parcels of land vested in purchasing tenants tinder the Land Purchase Acts, including holdings vested on re-sale of estates purchased by the Estates Commissioners and Congested Districts Board, during the last ten financial years are the following:—
Year ended 31st March. Number Vested. 1906 … … … … 12,678 1907 … … … … 13,355 1908 … … … … 13,558 1909 … … … … 16,811 1910 … … … … 15,986 1911 … … … … 22,905 1912 … … … … 24,169 1913 … … … … 23,975 1914 … … … … 16,956 1915 … … … … 10,948 The figures for each county are given in the Annual Reports of the Land and Estates Commissioners, but the detailed figures for each county for the financial year ended 31st ultimo have not yet been segregated.
§ Mr. GINNELLasked the Chief Secretary if he will state the year in which the purchase agreements were signed in the case of the latest estate dealt with this year by advance of price and vesting of holdings in each of the three categories into which the Estates Commissioners have divided for purposes of priority estates before them for sale?
§ Mr. BIRRELLThe years are 1907 in the case of estates on the Principal Register of Direct Sales (all cash), and 1908 in respect of cases on the Subsidiary Registers (part money, part stock) and (all stock).