§ Mr. HURDasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he can give any approximate figures for the last or previous financial year of the amounts payable in respect of death duties on landed estates in England and Wales?
§ Mr. CHURCHILLI regret that no separate statistics of the death duties are available in respect of landed estates as such. If my hon. Friend will refer to Table 16 of the 69th Report of the Commissioners of Inland Revenue (Command Paper No. 2783), he will find that the net capital value of land in England and Wales upon which estate duty was paid in the year 1925–26 amounted to about £18,400,000. It is estimated that the total death duties payable on this property would be in the neighbourhood of £3,000,000.