§ Mr. LUNNasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade the amount paid out by the Gas Light and Coke Company in Excess Profits Duty during each of the years 1916, 1917, 1918 and 1919; and whether he can give an early date for the publication of returns of gas undertakings, both public and private, in continuation of Parliamentary Papers, H.C. 311, 312, of 1915, in view of the fact that no returns have been published for any of the years since 1914?
§ Mr. BRIDGEMANI am informed by the Gas Light and Coke Company that they have at no time been liable for Excess Profits Duty. The dividends which they have paid to their ordinary shareholders during the War have been on a considerably lower scale than those for some years prior to 1914. Returns for the year 1919 relating to all statutory gas undertakings in the United Kingdom are now being compiled and will be published as soon as practicable.