HC Deb 12 July 1922 vol 156 c1272

5.0 p.m.

The Excise Duty to be charged under Section forty-eight of the Finance (1909–10) Act, 1910, on statements of purchases of intoxicating liquor to be supplied in clubs shall, as respects any statement relating to purchases during any period after the thirty-first day of December, nineteen hundred and twenty-one, be at the rate of threepence instead of sixpence for every pound of the purchases shown in the statement.—[Sir Robert Horne.]

Brought up, and read the First time.

Motion made, and Question proposed, "That the Clause be read a Second time."—[Sir R. Horne.]

Sir G. COLLINS

I should like to ask one question. During the progress of the Bill, could the right hon. Gentleman inform the House of the cost that this concession will be to the Exchequer? If I remember aright, the figure was something like £200,000.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER (Sir Robert Home)

I think I gave the figure as £189,000.

Question put, and agreed to.

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