HC Deb 02 July 1917 vol 95 c848

Where the holder of any licence to keep a motor car granted for the year nineteen hundred and seventeen has at any time before the first day of July in the said year surrendered the licence in such manner and to such person or authority as may have been prescribed by regulations made by the Treasury, for the purpose of being cancelled, he shall be entitled to repayment of one-half of the duty paid on the licence.

Motion made, and Question proposed, "That the Clause stand part of the Bill."

Mr, McKENNA

As we are now going on with the second part of the Bill I should like my right hon. Friend, if he will, to let us know if it is intended to go beyond the second part to-night. It would, I think, be much more convenient for everybody that the Excess Profits Duty should be taken first to-morrow.

Mr. BONAR LAW

As my right hon. Friend well understands, if he were in my place he would like to get on as quickly as possible. At the same time I do feel that big considerations are involved in this, and that it is desirable from every point of view, in spite of our desire to make progress quickly, that if we get to the stage my right hon. Friend has named to-night, we shall not ask the Committee to go further.

Mr. McKENNA

I am much obliged.

Question put, and agreed to.