§ Mr. SPOORasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will grant a Return showing the total profit's each year for the past five years of all firms engaged in top-making, commission wool-combing, worsted and woollen spinning and manufacturing, assessed for taxation at the Bradford and other West Riding offices, also the separate totals under the headings of Income Tax, Super-tax, and Excess Profits Duty assessed to these firms during the same five years?
Mr. CHAMBERLAINNo information is available as to the profits and taxation of the various classes of taxpayers, and, in view of the labour involved in the preparation of detailed statistics of this character, I cannot undertake a classification of the various groups of trades and businesses which come under the notice of the Board of Inland Revenue.