§ MR. THORNE (West Ham, S.)I beg to ask the President of the Board of Trade if he will State the estimated amount of railway passenger duty that has been remitted to the railway companies who have a terminus in London up to 1905 under the Cheap Trains Act of 1883.
§ THE FINANCIAL SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY (Mr. MCKENNA, Monmouthshire)The receipts from railway passenger duty paid by London railway companies have declined from £620,000 in 1882 to £276,000 in 1905. But the Board of Inland Revenue do not see how it would be possible to estimate the proportions in which this decrease, and the decreases in the intervening years, should be attributed, to the operation of the Cheap Trains Act, 1883, or to other conditions.