§ 24. Mr. Boyd-Carpenterasked the Minister of Housing and Local Government what is the estimated additional amount of levy under the Land Commission Act to be remitted on the basis that the concessions announced in the Budget are applied to acts or events prior to 5th April 1969; and how much levy already collected in respect of such acts or events would have to be repaid.
§ Mr. K. RobinsonIf all the concessions had been made fully retrospective, about £2m. and £1.5m. respectively.
§ Mr. Boyd-CarpenterWould not that have been a very small forgoing of revenue in order to prevent very real feelings of injustice on the part of people who pay purely because of the accident of a particular date, liabilities which people who came along a little later or a bit earlier were excused?
§ Mr. RobinsonI do not think that £3½ million is by any means a trivial sum. As the right hon. Gentleman knows, the general principles have been debated widely and at length in the House.