§ 63. Mr. Houghtonasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many claims for the repayment of Income Tax were received by the Inland Revenue Department more than three months ago and are still unsettled; what proportion those unsettled cases are of the total number of repayment claims received; and how many of the unsettled cases are for sums exceeding £1,000.
§ Mr. GaitskellAt 4th June, 1951, the latest date for which figures are available, there were 8,939 unsettled claims which had been in hand for more than three months; this represents one-third of 1 per cent. of a year's intake of claims. I cannot say how many of the unsettled claims involved more than £1,000.