§ Colonel Burtonasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether he can state the number of cases which have been placed before the Tithe Redemption Commission appealing for reduction or total remission; how many such cases have been heard; and the number of recommendations for remission, if any, which have been made, and the sums involved?
§ Captain WallaceThe number of notices served upon the Tithe Redemption Commission requiring reference to the Arrears Investigation Committee is 4,082, relating to arrears of tithe rentcharge totalling £128,281. Directions have been given by the committee in 3,097 cases, involving arrears amounting to £99,261. Remission has been directed in 1,294 of these cases, the amounts remitted being in all £21,010, in respect of a total of £59,865. In 610 of these cases, the committee further directed that the arrears should be recovered by instalments: they gave similar directions in 356 cases, relating to £11,582, where there has been no remission.