§ Dr. McDonaldasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he will publish and update the table on the number of taxpayers for 1984–85 and 1985–86 on the same basis as the answer given on 25 January 1984, Official Report, columns 607–608.
§ Mr. Moore[pursuant to his reply, 20 January 1986, c. 85.]: The latest estimates are as follows:
Treasury from the sale of publications are brought to account as appropriations in aid of the Treasury vote, class XIII, vote 4. Receipts from the sale of Budget documents are not accounted for separately and cannot be identified except at disproportionate cost.
In addition to the Treasury publications, Her Majesty's Stationery Office printed and published 9,000 copies of the 1985 financial statement and Budget report. Two thousand were sent to the Vote Office, 150 to the Printed Paper Office, and 150 to the Sale Office; 1,603 were sold to Government Departments and 4,691 were sold to other customers, including members of the public and commercial organisations; 406 copies remain in stock. The price to all customers was £5.35 per copy.
The cost of printing and publishing is borne by the HMSO trading fund which recovers its costs from net sales revenue. The Exchequer, therefore, incurs none of the costs of printing, publishing and selling—other than the purchase from HMSO of copies for the use of the Treasury and other Exchequer departments.