HC Deb 04 February 1952 vol 495 c92W
Mr. Balfour

asked the Chencellor of the Exchequer the amount received by the Treasury, month by month, from the bookmakers' licence duty on greyhound tracks for the months January to December, 1951.

Mr. Boyd-Carpenter

The monthly figures of receipts of bookmakers' licence duty are as follows:—

1951 £
January 134,578
February 136,810
March 159,083
April 155,050
May 189,080
June 161,690
July 172,896
August 200,649
September 157,387
October 165,840
November 166,113
December 140,470

Mr. Balfour

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer the figures of the receipts of the betting duty for football and similar pools, month by month, for the years 1950 and 1951.

Mr. Boyd-Carpenter

The monthly figures of receipts of pool betting duty during 1950 and 1951 from football and similar pools are as follows:

1950 1951
£ £
January 1,358,409 1,712,464
February 1,663,565 1,804,278
March 2,026,731 2,148,413
April 1,505,321 1,710,761
May 1,228,230 1,396,398
June 131,914 382,472
July 57,528 220,513
August 144,974 242,344
September 1,496,161 1,486,927
October 1,747,157 1,980,707
November 2,136,884 2,188,998
December 2,185,022 1,944,117