§ Major O'NEILLasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer the value of property assessed for death duties in Northern and Southern Ireland, as defined in the Government of Ireland Bill, respectively, for each of the financial years 1916-17, 1917-18, 1918-19, and 1919-20?
Mr. CHAMBERLAINThe information asked for is not available, as statistics have never been collected for Northern and Southern Ireland separately. In Command Paper 645, it was estimated on the basis of an examination of the estates paying duty in Ireland over a period of the three years 1916-17, 1917-18 and 1918-19, that the average apportionment of the Death Duties between Northern and Southern Ireland for 1919-20 was approximately as follows:—
Northern Ireland £500,000 Southern Ireland £1,000,000 The results of that examination showed that the receipts in each of the first three years referred to in the question, were made up approximately as follows:—
Northern. Southern. £ £ 1916–17 298,000 645,000 1917–18 470,000 711,000 1918–19 341,000 897,000