§ 35. Mr. Hamlingasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he will publish a White Paper showing the effect of direct and indirect taxation on taxpayers with moderate incomes during the last 25 years, and comparisons where possible with the effect of direct and indirect taxation in other leading industrial nations.
§ Mr. DiamondI would refer my hon. Friend to the estimates produced by the Central Statistical Office for the years 1957 and 1959–64, published in Economic Trends in November, 1962, February, 1964 and August, 1966. Corresponding information is not, as far as I am aware, prepared by other industrial countries.
§ Mr. HamlingWould my right hon. Friend make sure that that information is published in a more popular form so that the myths about Tory taxation policy can be exploded once and for all?
§ Mr. DiamondI should be only too glad to give that to make this information more readily available.