§ Mr. A. Lewisasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will give the rates of total revenue received from Surtax in each of the years from 1951 to 1963; and what estimate he has made of the estimated revenue return for the year 1962–63 if Surtax rates had been left at the 1951–52 level.
§ Mr. GreenThe net receipt of surtax was as follows:
No estimate has been made of what the yield of Surtax would have been in 1962–63 if the Surtax rates had been the same as in 1951–52.32W
£ million 1951 124.9 1952 128.4 1953 129.6 1954 131.8 1955 132.1 1956 144.5 1957 159.2 1958 160.7 1959 169.4 1960 177.6 1961 196.4 1962 229.8 1963 174.1