HL Deb 09 December 2003 vol 655 cc59-60WA
Lord Moynihan

asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether they will provide an estimate of the revenue to the Exchequer from the taxation of sport. HL198]

Lord McIntosh of Haringey

The figures are not available in the format requested. They would only be available at disproportionate cost, would require the yield from sporting activities to be inferred from across a range of more broadly defined leisure activities and would require assumptions about tax incidence that could render the results misleading.