§ Brigadier-General CLIFTON BROWNasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what are the amounts of Estate and Succession Duties collected by the Treasury from agricultural lands and estates for the last three years, respectively; and what was the number of owners in each year from whose estates these moneys were collected?
§ Mr. P. SNOWDENThese payments are not specially recorded, but it is estimated that the Estate Duty paid in respect of agricultural land for the years 1926, 1927 and 1928 amounted to £3,400,000, £2,500,000 and £2,600,000, respectively. The annual receipt of Succession Duty in respect of agricultural land is in the neighbourhood of £250,000. I regret I cannot give particulars of the number of such cases year by year.