HC Deb 26 July 1949 vol 467 cc2247-8
56. Lieut.-Colonel Lipton

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many dollars were remitted to the United Kingdom in the last financial year by British entertainment artists employed in the United States of America.

Mr. Glenvil Hall

I regret that no figures of these remittances are available.

Lieut.-Colonel Lipton

Is my right hon. Friend aware that it is costing £470,000 to import American entertainment artists into this country, and is it not a fact that this very largely exceeds the dollar earnings we get from British artists in the United States? Cannot he arrange for reciprocity or for quid pro quo in dollars.

Mr. Glenvil Hall

I thought I explained this matter a few days ago when a similar Question was put to me. It is impossible for us to censor those who go, or to insist on reciprocity as suggested by my hon. and gallant Friend.