§ 43. Captain ERSKINE-BOLSTasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether his attention has been called to the fact that the aggregate taxation on motor vehicles in this country as the result of the present taxation on petrol and licences is three times as much as the taxation upon motor vehicles in the United States of America; and whether, in view of the fact that any tax on fuel or transport must lower the capacity of British industry to compete in world markets, he will consider the advisability of reducing the petrol and registration tax at the earliest possible opportunity?
Mr. CHAMBERLAINI am prepared to accept my hon. and gallant Friend's statement as to the facts in the first part of his question; but I obviously cannot deal with the considerations referred to in the second part of the question within the limits of a Parliamentary answer, nor can I anticipate Budget decisions.