§ Mr. DAYasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer the approximate total of the receipts derived from the several safeguarding duties, from the dates of imposition up to the last convenient date, on the following articles: gas mantles, buttons, and domestic hollow-ware, showing separately the amount received in each financial year?
§ Mr. P. SNOWDENThe net receipts from the safeguarding duties upon gas mantles, buttons and domestic hollow-ware from 1st April, 1929, to 30th November, 1929, both dates inclusive, were as follow:
£ Gas Mantles … 1,700 Buttons … 100,000 Domestic Hollow-ware … 36,600 The annual net receipts from each of these duties from the date of imposition down to 31st March, 1929, may be found in Table 79 (page 101) of the Twentieth Annual Report of the Commissioners of His Majesty's Customs and Excise (Command Paper Number 3435).