HL Deb 14 February 1961 vol 228 cc805-6WA
LORD COLYTON

asked Her Majesty's Government:

If they will give details of schemes in force in the dependent territories under their control to encourage capital investment in new industries, whether in the form of exemption from local taxation, from municipal taxation or from excise or customs duties or other incentives to pioneer industries.

THE EARL OF PERTH

A summary of the principal fiscal measures adopted to encourage investment in the dependent territories is given on pages 95–98 of the booklet entitledTaxation Systems applicable to Investments in the Overseas Countries associated with Member Countries of O.E.E.C. as at 31st December, 1959: Volume I, a copy of which I am having placed in the Library of the House.

House adjourned at two minutes before eight o'clock.