§ Colonel DAYasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he can state the number and names of the owners of coal royalties in Great Britain who receive £5,000 and 2539W over per year and the total amount paid to such owners during the 12 months ended 31st December, 1924, or for the 12 months ended on the last known date?
Mr. GUINNESSI regret that I am unable to furnish this information without a detailed examination which would involve a disproportionate expenditure of time and labour. The hon. and gallant Member will, however, find an analysis of the nature desired, for the year 1917–18, in Appendix 78 of Volume III of the Report of the Coal Industry Commission, Command Paper 361 of 1919. I am advised that there is no reason to think that the relative distribution there shown has materially altered since.