Banks (Recognition) (Hansard, 6 March 1984)

§ Mr. Rooker
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will list those companies which in each of the past four years have had recognition withdrawn as a banking business for the purposes of the Taxation Acts.

§ Mr. Moore
[pursuant to his reply, 5 March 1984]: Recognition as a bank for taxation purposes has been 505W withdrawn from the following companies which, on the information available to the Revenue, had ceased to trade as banks.
1980

Capital Consumer & Commercial Finance Ltd.

Overseas Development Bank

Anglo-Continental Exchange Ltd.

Ionian Securities Ltd.

Edward Bates & Son

1981

London Scottish Banking Corporation

Beverley Acceptances Ltd.

Schlesinger Ltd.

Slater Walker Ltd.

Rainier National Bank

Sterling Industrial Securities Ltd.

Anglo-Eastern Bank Ltd.

Whyte Gase Properties Ltd.

1982

Chancery Trust Ltd.

Bank Julius Baer International

Jammal Trust Bank SAL

Dow Scandia Banking Corporation Ltd.

St. Margaret's Finance Ltd.

Royal Bank of Canada (London) Ltd.

Finance Corporation for Industry Ltd.

NWS Trust Ltd.

1983

First Guarantee Trust Co. Ltd.

Duboff Brothers Ltd

Bank Brussels Lambert (UK) Ltd.

International Resources and Finance Bank SA

Value of specified United Kingdom imports

1980 1981 1982 (£ million cif) 1983 (provisional)

(i) "Seamless" tubes and pipes; blanks for tubes and pipes, of iron (other than cast iron) or steel (excluding high pressure hydroelectric conduits):

Other than: (a) Straight, and of uniform wall-thickness, unworked, seamless, of circular cross-section, soley for the manufacture of tubes and pipes with other cross-sections and wall-thicknesses.

(b) Straight and of uniform wall-thickness of a maximum length of 4.50m, of alloy steel containing by weight not less than 0.90 per cent, but not more than 1.5 per cent, of carbon, not less than 0.50 per cent, but not more than 2 per cent, of chromium and not more than 0.50 per cent, of molybdenum.

(Sub-group 678.2 less 7318.0100, -0500, -1300, -1550 and -1590. 65.4 89.0 123.7 66.8

(ii) Other tubes and pipes of iron (other than cast iron) or steel (excluding high pressure hydro-electric conduits) other than in (a) and (b) above 52.5 50.4 56.7 52.9

(Sub-group 678.3).

Sources: Her Majesty's Customs and Excise Tariff, Chapter 73; and United Kingdom Overseas Trade Statistics, SITC/R2 Group 678.
Note: no information is yet available for the current year.

§ Mr. Austin Mitchell
asked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry whether he will publish in the Official Report a list of the four-digit headings in chapter 48 of the Brussels nomenclature which fall wholly or partly in division 64 of the standard industrial trade classification and in which one or more of the items will be subject to a tariff of 10 per cent. or more on 1 January 1987, together with the value of imports of such items each year since the start of the Tokyo round.

§ Mr. Gould
asked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry whether he will publish in the Official Report a

Value of specified United Kingdom imports
	1980	1981	1982	(£ million cif) 1983 (provisional)
(i) "Seamless" tubes and pipes; blanks for tubes and pipes, of iron (other than cast iron) or steel (excluding high pressure hydroelectric conduits):
Other than: (a) Straight, and of uniform wall-thickness, unworked, seamless, of circular cross-section, soley for the manufacture of tubes and pipes with other cross-sections and wall-thicknesses.
(b) Straight and of uniform wall-thickness of a maximum length of 4.50m, of alloy steel containing by weight not less than 0.90 per cent, but not more than 1.5 per cent, of carbon, not less than 0.50 per cent, but not more than 2 per cent, of chromium and not more than 0.50 per cent, of molybdenum.
(Sub-group 678.2 less 7318.0100, -0500, -1300, -1550 and -1590.	65.4	89.0	123.7	66.8
(ii) Other tubes and pipes of iron (other than cast iron) or steel (excluding high pressure hydro-electric conduits) other than in (a) and (b) above	52.5	50.4	56.7	52.9
(Sub-group 678.3).