§ Motion made, and Question proposed, That the Clause stand part of the Bill.
§ Mr. DiamondThis is the last Clause of this Part of the Bill dealing with penalties. I wish to draw the attention of the Committee to two newspaper reports dealing with penalties. The first is of a case reported in a local newspaper, the Gloucester Citizen, of a man who claimed an allowance for a dependent relative. He claimed in respect of 1254 his mother for fourteen years after she had died. Proceedings were taken against him before the magistrates and it emerged in evidence that the total amount underpaid was £48 9s. 3d. Quite properly, the matter was referred to quarter sessions. The other case, authoritatively reported in a Glasgow newspaper, concerned a forward stripper when the Inland Revenue lost more than £4 million. The penalty in that case was that the stripper got away with £4 million free of Income Tax and Surtax.
§ Mr. Harold Wilson (Huyton)Is the Chancellor to make no comment?
§ Question put and agreed to.
§ Clause ordered to stand part of the Bill.
§ Fifth Schedule agreed to.