§ 61. Commander BELLAIRSasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he is aware that the British official figures of taxation, direct and indirect, give £16 12s. per head for Great Britain, £5 12s. 7d. for France, and £5 11s. 10d. for federal taxes of the United States; whether the National Industrial Conference Board in the United States gave figures based upon pre-War exchange as 46 dollars per head for Great Britain, 25 dollars in France, and 41 dollars in the United States; and whether he will take steps to ask our ambassador in Washington to circulate the correct figures?
§ Major BOYD-CARPENTERI have no knowledge of the American figures or of the basis on which they are arrived at; but I do not think it necessary to take any steps in the matter.