§ Mr. Pavittasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will estimate the additional revenue which would accrue from an increase in the duty on 20 cigarettes of (a) 1p and (b) 10p.
§ Mr. Bruce-GardyneThe additional full-year revenue, including consequential VAT, is estimated to be about(a) £35 million and (b) £350 million. The estimates have been rounded to avoid spurious precision and this conceals that successive increases yield progressively less.