HC Deb 27 November 1917 vol 99 cc1957-8

(1) Sums collected by the Commissioners of Inland Revenue under the said agreement shall be paid into such account as the Controller may direct.

(2) Payments into and out of the said account shall be made, and all other matters relating to the administration of that account and to the money standing to the credit of the account (including the interest of any such money) shall be regulated in such manner as the Treasury may direct.

(3) At the end of every financial year accounts of the payments into and the expenditure defrayed out of the said account shall be made up in such form and with such particulars as may be directed by the Treasury, and shall be audited by the Controller and Auditor-General as public accounts in accordance with such regulations as the Treasury may make, and shall be laid before Parliament with a Report thereon.—[Mr. Roch]

Brought up, and read the first time.

Mr. ROCH

I beg to move, " That the Clause be read a, second time." The object of this Clause is to cover a point which was very much canvassed on the Second Reading of the Bill, as to whether the Inland Revenue had any power whatever to pay this money over to the Coal Controller. It endeavours to make it quite clear that the money shall be paid over to the Coal Controller. I do not gather whether it is accepted?

Clause read a second time, and added to the Bill.