RAILWAY PASSENGER DUTY.

HC Deb 01 April 1930 vol 237 cc1109-10W

Mr. H. GIBSON

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer the annual and total relief remission of the passenger duty to the railway companies?

Mr. P. SNOWDEN

The receipts from Railway Passenger Duty amounted to £366,967 for 1928–29, which was the last full year of the duty. The capital equivalent of the relief afforded to railway companies by the abolition of the duty was estimated by my predecessor in his Budget Speech last year at £6,500,000.