HC Deb 28 May 1968 vol 765 c196W
54. Mr. Currie

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) under what circumstances the Board of Inland Revenue granted a certificate exempting the sum of £10,000 paid by the publishers to the felon, Lonsdale, from the United Kingdom tax, for an article written by him;

(2) why the traitor, Lonsdale, was allowed to have transfered to him by his publishers the sum of £10,000 for his memoirs.

Mr. Diamond

I refer the hon. Gentleman to the Answer given to my hon. Friend the Member for Harrow, East (Mr. Roebuck) on 23rd May.—[Vol. 756, c.133–4.]