Orders of the Day — Local Government (Scotland) [Money].

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at on 5 December 1928.

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Photo of Brigadier-General John Charteris Brigadier-General John Charteris , Dumfriesshire

As I understood the right hon. Gentleman, he asked why should the landlord get more relief than the tenant? Surely the answer is that the tenant is already re-receiving a far larger measure of relief than the landlord. The position already is that the landlord is paying, on the rating, roughly three times what the tenant pays. It is because of that that the relief afforded to the landlord now is greater per pound of rental than that afforded to the tenant. I understood the right hon. Gentleman to carry his argument further and to say that, on the conclusion of the existing leases, rents would undoubtedly be raised, and it was in connection with that point that he quoted the instance to which I have already referred.