§ Mr. LONGDENasked the Minister of Transport the amount of relief granted to railway companies under the scheme for assisting the reduction of freight charges for certain heavy industries?
§ Mr. HERBERT MORRISONThe amount of the grant in aid to enable the railway companies to anticipate the scheme for allowing rebates from the carriage charges on certain selected traffics by a period of 10 months from 1st December, 1928, was £3⅓ millions. The relief of the railway companies cinder the Local Government Act, 1920, from local rates on their railway undertakings has been estimated at £3,916,000 for the year beginning 1st October, 1929, when the Railway Freight Rebates Scheme came into force in accordance with the Eleventh Schedule to that Act.