§ Wing-Commander Jamesasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether he has examined the financial decrees issued by the French Government designed to ensure that no section of the community, including weekly wage-earners, shall profiteer during the war; and whether he will consider the imposition of special taxation upon all un-mobilised males of military age?
§ Captain CrookshankI am aware of the provisions of the French Government's decrees, to which my hon. and gallant Friend refers. In reply to the second part of his question, proposals for the imposition of additional taxation will fall within the scope of the emergency Budget.