HC Deb 24 December 1929 vol 233 c2138W
Mr. HURD

asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury, in respect of each of the last five years for which figures are available, what are the sums paid by the Treasury to the county of Wiltshire by way of grants in aid of local taxation, showing separately the payments for education, poor relief, road construction or repair, mental hospitals, relief of rates on agricultural land, and other purposes; and, in respect of the same period, the gross sums paid on these accounts to the counties of Hampshire and Berkshire, respectively?

Mr. GREENWOOD

The following statement contains the desired information so far as it relates to the year ending 31st March, 1928. The corresponding figures for earlier years are not readily available:—