HC Deb 26 March 1942 vol 378 c2148
66. Mrs. Rathbone

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he will grant an increase in the Excess Profits Tax pre-war standard, under Section 13 of the Finance (No. 2) Act, 1940, to the home-grown timber industry similar to that already granted in the case of mines, quarries and oil-wells?

Captain Crookshank

My right hon. Friend regrets he cannot see his way to adopt my hon. Friend's suggestion.

Mrs. Rathbone

In view of the concession already made to mines, quarries and oil-wells does not my right hon. and gallant Friend think that the same should apply to timber, stocks of which are being slowly drained?