§ Mr. LINFIELDasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer the amount of duty collected by his Department under the Safeguarding of Industries Act on photo graphic cameras, and can he give the number of cameras imported during the years 1920 and 1923; and what number was of German origin?
Mr. GRAHAMThe total duty collected in respect of photographic cameras from the 1st October, 1921, when the Safeguarding of Industries Act came into force, to the 31st December, 1923, amounted to £26,664. During the years 1920 and 1923 respectively, 456,735 and 396,973 cameras were imported, of which 907 and 28,304 respectively were consigned from Germany.