HC Deb 23 April 1952 vol 499 c24W
Mr. Assheton

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer the total receipts from Purchase Tax on textiles during each month of 1951 and 1952 to date.

Mr. Boyd-Carpenter

Purchase Tax is payable quarterly, and it is estimated that receipts of tax in each quarter of 1951 from clothing (except footwear), haberdashery, textile piece goods, household textile goods and floor coverings were as follows:

Quarter ended £'000
31st March, 1951 30,047
30th June, 1951 29,127
30th September, 1951 27,707
31st December, 1951 18,384

Particulars for the quarter ended 31st March, 1952, are not yet available.