HC Deb 02 May 1944 vol 399 c1202
61. Mr. Hugh Lawson

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer 'why, in Cmd. 652o, he did not give numbers of private incomes under £250 per annum.

Sir J. Anderson

It has not been found practicable so far to make an estimate of the number of incomes below £250 per annum because the available information is incomplete and 'because of the risk of duplication where such incomes are made up of receipts from different sources.

Mr. Lawson

Can the right hon. Gentleman indicate whether these figures are in course of preparation and whether he can give them in the future?

Sir J. Anderson

I wish that it were possible, but part of the statistical information on which we rely for this purpose is collected by the Board of Inland Revenue, and as they do not get the incomes which are below the taxable limit, that source of information naturally fails.