§ Sir W. SUGDENasked the Chancellor of the. Exchequer whether he will now instruct the Inland Revenue authorities to receive payment of Excess Profits Duty from cotton and woollen mills by quarterly payments and loins where proper inquiries prove the companies' bonâ fides?
§ Mr. BALDWINApplications from cotton and woollen mills for permission to pay Excess Profits Duty by quarterly instalments over a period of five years are dealt with on the same lines as applications from other concerns, and in this connection I would refer my hon. Friend to a reply, of which I am sending him a copy, given to my hon. Friend the Member for the Ecclesall Division of Sheffield (Sir S. Roberts) by my predecessor on the 16th March, 1922. If, however, my hon. Friend has in mind any particular case in which he considers that an application of this kind has been improperly refused and will furnish me with particulars of it, I will cause inquiry to be made.