HC Deb 06 February 1967 vol 740 cc221-2W
Mr. Hooson

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) whether the Commissioners of Customs and Excise intend to repay the members of the public who have been overcharged in the past on imported goods at a rate held to be wrong and invalid in the case of Salomon v Commissioners of Customs and Excise;

(2) whether the Commissioners of Customs and Excise sought independent counsel's opinion on the right rate of duty to be levied in the goods considered in the case of Salomon v Commissioners of Customs and Excise; and what legal

Mr. Callaghan

£876 million at end-October 1964 and £1,118 million at end-January 1967. Overseas transactions in securities are summarised quarterly in "Economic Trends". But it is not possible to deduce what the reserves would have been if these transactions had not taken place.

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