STAMP DUTY (CHEQUES).

HC Deb 09 June 1937 vol 324 c1768W

Colonel Wed£wood

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what is estimated. to have been the yield of the 2d. stamp duty on cheques in each of the last three financial years?

Sir J. Simon

The revenue from the 2d. stamp duty on cheques in the last three years was as follows:

	£
1934–35	3,788,000
1935–36	3,872,000
1936–37	3,960,000