§ Mr. SCURRasked the Minister of Health the amount of rates in the £ levied in each of the Metropolitan boroughs for the year 1924, and the produce of a penny rate in each borough?
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Mr. CHAMBERLAINThe desired information in respect of the financial year 1924–25 is as follows:—
Name of Metropolitan Borough. Amount in the £ of rates levied. Estimated produce of each 1d. in the £ of rates levied. 1. 2. 3. s. d. £ City of London 9 11 26,422 Battersea 13 0 4,240 Bermondsey 16 6 4,095 Bethnal Green 14 10 2,275 Camberwell 11 5 5,700 Chelsea 11 6 3,778 Deptford 14 4 2,576 Finsbury 10 6 4,435 Fulham 11 0 4,031 Greenwich *13 4 3,089 Hackney 11 10 5,260 Hammersmith 12 0 3,770 Hampstead 12 0 4,750 Holborn *11 0 5,508 Islington 11 5 7,889 Kensington 10 5 10,956 Lambeth 11 6 8,251 Lewisham 11 2 4,686 Paddington 10 4 6,782 Poplar 23 0 3,743 St. Marylebone 10 3 9,924 St. Pancras 11 0 7,475 Shoreditcb 13 3 3,496 Southwark *12 0 5,076 Stepney *14 9 6,750 Stoke Newington 10 9 1,416 Wandsworth 10 10 9,606 Westminster, City of 9 9 34,287 Woolwich *13 3 3,959 *Column 2.—In these cases the amount given is the average rate in the £ for the borough. In the other cases there is an uniform rate over the whole borough.