§ 44. Mr. RILEYasked the President of the Board of Trade the total approximate amounts of rate relief to which the brewing, tobacco, artificial silk, iron and steel, cotton, and woollen industries, respectively, will be entitled for the year 1929–30 under the Rating and Valuation (Apportionment) Bill?
§ 41. Mr. ERNEST BROWNasked the President of the Board of Trade whether he will state, for industries and sections of industries, the actual amounts of his estimates of relief under the Rating (Apportionment) Bill?
§ The PRESIDENT of the BOARD of TRADE (Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister)I would refer the hon. Members to my reply of 14th May, to the hon. Members for Rochdale (Mr. Kelly) and Leith (Mr. E. Brown), for the estimates I have been able to make of the relief that will be obtained by the industries referred to in that reply. The Inland Revenue Department has made the following further estimates of the relief that other industries or groups of industries will obtain: The bleaching and dyeing industries will be relieved of about £550,000 in local rates; the metal trades (other than iron and steel, engineering, and shipbuilding), about £1,250,000; the leather, boot and shoe, clothing, and rubber trades, about £800,000; the food trades (including cattle foods), about £850,000; textile trades, other than cotton and wool, about £350,000; paper, printing and bookbinding trades, about £750,000; tobacco trades, about £250,000; and pottery, glassware and miscellaneous trades, about £300,000. I cannot give a separate estimate for the artificial silk industry.
§ Mr. A. V. ALEXANDERWould it be correct to say that, roughly, the relief is rather less than 1 per cent. of the productive turnover?
§ Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTERIt would be most dangerous to give an answer to a supplementary question in that way. If a considered reply about general percentages is desired, I would refer the hon. Gentleman to the speech which I made on the Second Reading.