§ Mr. G. MACDONALDasked the Minister of Health the total amount of money of which industrialists and others in the administrative county of Lancashire have been relieved in rates due to the de-rating system?
§ Miss LAWRENCEThe losses on account of rates in the administrative county of Lancashire as provisionally estimated, on the basis of the figures for the standard year, for the purposes of Part I of the Fourth Schedule to the Local Government Act, 1929, amount to £1,344,197 and the sums paid to the local authorities in the county over and above the sums required to make good the losses on account of rates and grants arising under the Act amount, as provisionally estimated, to an additional £218,262 apart 1811W from the mitigation of temporary loan liabilities provided for in Section 114 of the Act.