§ Mr. M. Samuelasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury to what extent the increase of £102,500,000 in indirect taxation as between the amount received during the financial year 1930-31 and the estimated revenue from indirect taxation during the current year before the introduction of the new Budget, consisted of taxation upon food; and what was the total of food, excluding malt and spirituous liquors?
§ Captain CrookshankThe estimated receipts from the taxation of foodstuffs under the first Budget for 1939–40 exceeded the corresponding receipts in366W 1930–31 by approximately £27,500,000 and amounted in total to roughly £44,000,000.