SIR HOWARD VINCENTI beg to ask Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer if he can state the amount collected from the duty on the importation, of cocoa butter since its imposition to 31st July, 1900, and the amount it produced between 1st August, 1899, and 31st July, 1900.
§ THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER (Sir M. HICKS BEACH,) Bristol, W.The amount of revenue collected from the duty on the importation of cocoa butter from the 1st August, 1899, to 31st July, 1900, was £3,231, and for the whole period since the imposition of the duty (7th August, 1896, to 31st July, 1900), was £14,033.