§ MR. ALBAN GIBBS (London)To ask Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer what steps have been, or will be, taken for preventing the fraudulent admixture with port, sherry, and claret, of British wines made from currants and raisins paying a very low duty (and in a lesser degree made from foreign grape-must paying no duty), in view of the injury caused to the revenue.
(Answered by Mr. Austen Chamberlain.) Only two days ago I received from the Board of Inland Revenue a Report on this subject founded on such information as the Board have been able to procure. I propose now to consider the whole matter carefully; but the hon. Member will understand that some time must necessarily elapse before I am able to announce what steps, if any, I may find it advisable to take for the better protection of the revenue derived from imported foreign wines.