§ Mr. Mulleyasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury the gross amount of pool betting and the amount of pool betting duty paid for the period from 1st January, 1955, to the nearest convenient date; and for a corresponding period in 1954.
§ Mr. H. BrookeThe gross amount of pool betting, which would include certain activities not liable to pool betting duty, is not available. The amounts of pool betting duty paid and of the stake money in respect of which duty was paid during the period from 1st January to 31st May in 1954 and 1955 are as follows:
— Total Duty Receipts In respect of stake money amounting to £ £ Totalisators at dogtracks— 1954 2,149,661 21,496,610 1955 2,134,024 21,340,240 Football and similar pools— 1954 10,859,340 36,197,800 1955 9,567,591 31,891,970