§ Lieut.-Colonel Heneageasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he has made an estimate of the approximate amount of revenue which would have accrued to the Treasury if there had been 699W an ad valorem duty of 10 per cent. on imported foreign newsprint, and one of 10 per cent. on Dominion and Colonial, during the last five years?
§ Sir J. SimonThe values of foreign newsprint imported during the last five years were £4,847,421 and of Empire newsprint £13,384,814. It is not practicable at the present time to estimate what revenue would have been produced by the rates of duty suggested by my hon. and gallant Friend.
NUMBER OF COUNTY COUNCILLORS IN SCOTLAND. County Council. Number of Members representing Landward Area. Number of Members representing Large Burghs. Number of Members representing Small Burghs. Total. Aberdeen … … 56 — 21 77 Angus … … 30 11 29 70 Argyll … … 34 — 19 53 Ayr … … 41 24 26 91 Banff … … 22 — 23 45 Berwick … … 28 — 6 34 Bute … … 11 — 14 25 Caithness … … 22 — 14 36 Clackmannan … … 8 — 14 22 Dumfries … … 35 14 11 60 Dumbarton … … 34 22 17 73 East Lothian … … 26 — 20 46 Fife … … 46 24 40 110 Inverness … … 57 21 4 82 Kincardine … … 21 — 11 32 Kinross* … … 11 — 4 15 Kirkcudbright … … 22 — 11 33 Lanark … … 54 36 3 93 Midlothian … … 34 — 21 55 Moray* … … 22 — 22 44 Nairn* … … 9 — 6 15 Orkney … … 20 — 11 31 Peebles … … 15 — 11 26 Perth* … … 47 20 16 83 Renfrew … … 25 50 15 90 Ross and Cromarty … … 36 — 14 50 Roxburgh … … 28 — 24 52 Selkirk … … 7 — 23 30 Stirling … … 40 20 12 72 Sutherland … … 19 — 1 20 West Lothian … … 30 — 22 52 Wigtown … … 21 — 11 32 Zetland … … 24 — 12 36 Total … … 935 242 508 1,685 * The County of Kinross is combined with the County of Perth for certain purposes as is the County of Nairn with the County of Moray. The members of the county councils of the two counties forming the combined county form the county council for the combined county.