ENTERTAINMENTS DUTY. (Hansard, 19 November 1937)

Mr. Temple Morris
asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury the yield from Entertainments Duty for each month during the current financial year and the comparative months in 1935, differentiating in the first case between revenue from the duty on living entertainment and that from mechanical entertainment?

§ Lieut.-Colonel Colville
The approximate amounts of Entertainments Duty collected during each of the months April to October in the years 1937 and 1935 were as follow:
amount was the total owed by them to Great Britain on war debts account; and what is the aggregate amount Great Britain has paid to the United States of America, including token payments?

§ Lieut.-Colonel Colville
The aggregate amount paid by or for account of Germany in respect of reparation and costs of occupation as recorded in the accounts of the Reparation Commission and the Bank for International Settlements is 20,598 million gold marks (£I,oro millions at the old par of exchange).
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It is not possible to give a figure for the United Kingdom alone which is strictly comparable with the figure given above. Our records include the surplus of liquidated ex-German property in this country but exclude receipts on account of costs of occupation which we could not distinguish without great labour. On this basis our total receipts from German reparation payments have been £122 millions.
The aggregate sums received by the United Kingdom on account of war debts, excluding the debts from the Dominions and Colonies, have been £71 millions.
The aggregate amount received by the United Kingdom from the Dominions and Colonies in respect of war advances is £ITO millions.
The answer to the fifth part of the question is in the negative, further payments having been suspended at the time of the "Hoover moratorium." South Africa has notwithstanding the moratorium completed repayment. Details of the amounts outstanding in other cases are given in the Annual Finance Accounts.
The aggregate amount paid by Great Britain to the United States of America in respect of the war debt, including token payments, is $2,025 millions (£416 millions at the old par of exchange).