HC Deb 16 June 1902 vol 109 c794
(11.0.) MR. LOUGH

said the Committee ought to receive some explanation of this proposal.

SIR M. HICKS BEACH

explained that this was in fulfilment of a promise he made on the clause of the Finance Bill relating to spirits, with the view of putting manufacturers of spirits in this country, when the grain duty was in force, on the same level as the manufacturers of foreign spirits made from grain.

Resolved, That on and after the seventeenth day of June, nineteen hundred and two, the respective dudes of Customs on imported spirits shall be increased by one penny.—(Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer.)