HC Deb 18 April 1967 vol 745 c282
13. Mr. John Lee

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will issue a White Paper giving statistics from information available to him from tax returns and other sources of the distribution of privately-owned real property in the United Kingdom.

Mr. MacDermot

The available information is already published in the Annual Reports of the Inland Revenue.

Mr. Lee

Will my hon. and learned Friend arrange for this information to be more conspicuously displayed, because the gross inequality of wealth is one of the many things which hon. Members on this side of the House hope that the Government will put right?

Mr. MacDermot

I regret that there is not a great deal of information of the kind that my hon. Friend seeks. If it will assist him, such information as there is will be found in Tables 165 and 167 of the 109th Report.

Mr. Richard Wainwright

Is the hon. and learned Gentleman aware that the information which has been prepared or is likely to be prepared from this kind of source is bound to be distorted by the absence of information on industrial pension funds and other investments on behalf of wage earners?

Mr. MacDermot

As we are dealing with privately-owned real property, I hardly think so.