§ Mr. GREENEasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer in view of the fact that the instructions issued by the Inland Revenue Department to district valuers, while authorising them to assist local authorities who require to purchase land for schemes of street improvement, by preparing valuations of the land to be acquired for the schemes, preclude the district valuers from giving separately the value of each owner's land included in a scheme so that the authorities have not the benefit of the district valuer's opinion when negotiating with the various owners, whether be will consider whether the instructions can be so amended as to make the district valuer's work of practical use to local authorities?
§ Mr. SNOWDENWhere a local authority is purchasing property for street improvements and requires the sanction of the State to borrowing for the purpose, the Inland Revenue Valuation Office usually advises the sanctioning Department as to the probable cost of the purchase as a whole. For purposes of convenience this general estimate is transmitted through the Local Authority. It would be impracticable to supplement it by details of the estimated cost of acquisition of separate interests in the land concerned.