§ Mr. PRETYMANasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what have been the Excise receipts during the present financial year from the holders of each of the four kinds of licences for private brewing, including the duty paid by any of them?
§ Sir R. HORNEThe latest available figures of Excise receipts during the present financial year from the holders of each of the four kinds of licences for private brewing are as follows:
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Licence duty. £ s. (1) Holders of licence to brew beer chargeable with beer duty 23 8
£ s. (2) Holders of licence to brew beer not chargeable with beer duty: (a) Occupiers of houses of an annual value exceeding £10 but not exceeding £15 947 6 (b) Occupiers of houses of an annual value of £10 or less 2,531 5 (c) Occupiers of houses of an annual value of £8 or less to whom free licences were issued between the 30th April and the 31st August, to brew a quantity not exceeding two bushels of malt or the equivalent thereof, for their own use in the course of their employment on harvest work nil. Exact figures in respect of beer duty paid by the holders of private brewers' licences are not yet available, but the amount is approximately £1,000.