§ Earl WINTERTONasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he has consulted the Law Officers of the Crown as to whether employers' contributions under the National Insurance Bill will be held to be deductible expenses in arriving at income for the purposes of Income Tax; and, if not, whether he will give an undertaking to include in the forthcoming Budget some provision for the relief of those employers whose margin of profit is 483W small by comparison with the number of employés in respect of whom contributions must be paid?
Mr. McKINNON WOODI would refer the Noble Lord to the answer given by me yesterday to the hon. and learned Member for St. Pancras West.