§ Mr. H. GIBSONasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer the annual and total relief remission of the passenger duty to the railway companies?
§ Mr. P. SNOWDENThe receipts from Railway Passenger Duty amounted to £366,967 for 1928–29, which was the last full year of the duty. The capital equivalent of the relief afforded to railway companies by the abolition of the duty was estimated by my predecessor in his Budget Speech last year at £6,500,000.