HC Deb 09 May 1895 vol 33 c791
MR. W. P. BYLES

I beg to ask the right hon. Gentleman the President of the Board of Trade, whether it is intended to levy the Railway Passenger Duty on the light railways that may be constructed under the Bill of the Government now before the House, or whether a light railway, like a railway upon the high road, is not to be regarded as a railway at all?

MR. BRYCE

It is not intended to levy Railway Passenger Duty on the light railways which may be constructed under the Bill now before the House, and I propose to move a clause in Committee making it clear that they are to be exempt.