§ Mr. D. Somervilleasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he will consider publishing at the end of each financial year a detailed statement as to the extent during the year of any increase in taxation and the reason for it and, in addition, an analysis of the rate burdens which in that period have been thrown on the community and how these burdens have originated?
§ Sir J. SimonAs regards the first part of the question, full information is given in the annual Budget speech and the accompanying financial statement as to the yield of the various taxes for the past year and proposals for the current year. I am not sure what precisely my hon. Friend has in mind in the latter part of200W his question, but it is the custom when a Bill imposes charges on rates as well as on the Exchequer to include an estimate thereof in the Financial Memorandum or White Paper, as the case may be. I think that this arrangement adequately meets the case.