§ Mr. LOUGHasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will state the total revenue received in the last complete year before the War and in each year after the rate of duty was increased, up to 31st March, 1917, in the case of cocoa, coffee, and any other domestic necessity not included in Clauses 1 and 2 of the Finance Bill, of which the rate of duty was increased during the War period?
§ Mr. BONAR LAWissued the following table:
TOTAL REVENUE received in the last financial year before the War, i.e., 1913–14, and in each year thereafter up to 31st March, 1917, from articles of "domestic necessity" not included in Clauses 1 and 2 of the Finance Bill which have been subjected to new or increased duties during the war period— Article. Revenue produced by the Duties in force in each of the following years. 1913–14 1914―14 1915–16 1916–17 £ £ £ £ Beer, imported and home-made 13,654,614 15,881,516 33,770,441 31,572,742 Cocoa 341,489 354,156 698,197 1,580,732 Coffee 177,730 191,827 276,502 550,351 Chicory, imported and home-made 43,397 57,039 82,335 121,659 Coffee and Chicory, etc., mixed 1,428 1,301 1,831 3,169 Sugar, Molasses, Glucose and Saccharine, and articles containing these, imported and home-made 3,328,535 3,265,754 9,023,068 18,328,931 Tobacco, imported and homemade 18,283,657 19,302,030 25,780,718 27,375,266 Matches and Mechanical Lighters, imported and home-made‡ — — — 1,029,053 Table Waters and Cider, imported and home-made‡ — — — 1,241,175 * Figures for 1916–17 are subject to correction. ‡ New Duties imposed in 1916–17,