§ MR. HERBERT SAMUEL (Yorkshire, Cleveland)To ask the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the Foreign Office will present to this House a statement showing which foreign countries have established systems of graduated income-tax, or of income-tax levied at different rates on earned and on unearned incomes, or both, with particulars in each case of the rates of tax and the system of assessment and collection.
(Answered by Earl Percy.) The Secretary of State will endeavour to obtain the desired information with a view to its presentation.