§ Mr. GINNELLasked the Vice-President of the Department of Agriculture (Ireland) whether complaints have reached the Department against levying the Entertainment Tax upon agricultural shows subsidised by county committees as being illegal and opposed to public interest, and against the restrictions and difficulties affecting the exhibition of machinery at those shows; and whether the Department will have those two causes of complaint removed?
§ Mr. RUSSELLThe Department have received complaints from several county committees of agriculture and other interested bodies, and they have communicated to the Commissioners of Inland Revenue and the Ministry of Munitions. In regard to the Entertainment Tax, I would remind the hon. Member of a reply given on 20th July by the then Chancellor of the Exchequer to the effect that the question of exemption would be decided on the circumstances of each case.