HC Deb 02 May 1901 vol 93 cc425-6
MR. CHAPLIN (Lincolnshire, Sleaford)

I beg to ask Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer if he is able to say what amount of revenue the 1s. duty on grain, which was repealed in 1869 and then produced £900,000, if it was still in force, would produce at the present time; and if he can give the same information with regard to the duties on meal and flour imposed in 1846 (5 and 6 Vic., c. 14), and likewise repealed in 1869.

SIR M. HICKS BEACH

Had the duties on grain, which were repealed in 1869, been in force in 1900, and assuming that the imports would have suffered no reduction owing to those duties, the duty on imported grain in 1900 would have amounted to £2,066,000. As regards the duties on meal and flour, I suppose that my right hon. friend is referring to the duties, not in the form first given to them in 1846, but in the form which they took in 1849 and retained till their repeal in 1869. On this understanding, and assuming that the imports of meal and flour would have suffered no reduction in 1900 through the effect of the duties, the yield in that year would have been £456,540.