HC Deb 30 June 1910 vol 18 c1136

I come now to the non-tax revenue. The Post Office I estimate at £23,800,000.

Mr. AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN

Does that include the Telegraphs and Telephones as well as the Post Office?

Mr. LLOYD GEORGE

Yes, it includes all three services, and the total is £23,800,000. The increase we anticipate is very largely due to the excellent trade prospects of the year. The receipts from the Crown lands we put at £480,000 and from the Suez Canal shares and other items at £1,160,000. That is down by £109,000, but the diminution is not attributable to the Suez Canal at all; it represents, in fact, a sum of £100,000 received from the Gold Coast last year on account of an Exchequer Loan, and which, of course, is an item that will not appear in the revenue for this year. "Miscellaneous" stands at £1,850,000, an increase of £162,000, giving a total non-tax revenue of £27,290,000.