§ Mr. Arthur Lewisasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he will publish in the OFFICIAL REPORT his estimate for the current fiscal year of the amount of revenue he expects to receive from bookmakers and the Horse-race Totalisator Board in duty and other forms of taxation, and how these figures compare with the previous year.
§ Mr. HigginsSuch estimates have not been made, but the available information on actual receipts in the first nine months of the current financial year and of the previous financial year is as follows:
GENERAL BETTING DUTY RECEIPTS Bookmakers* £ million Horse Race Totalisator Board April-December, 1970 (inclusive) 52.4 1.3 April-December, 1971 (inclusive) 58.5† 1.2† * Includes betting on events of all kinds. † Provisional. OTHER FORMS OF TAXATION
The total receipts from bookmakers and the Board in other forms of taxation, such as income tax, corporation tax, S.E.T. and purchase tax, are not separately recorded.