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Sir John Harmood-Banner: ...than you can do it in this country. Please inform us how this arises?" Of course, I venture to think the Board of Trade ought to have known it themselves, that the higher wages and higher cost of fuel, and all the subsidies that are going about no doubt raises the cost. The Board of Trade ought to have known that without coming to us. We are all faced with this question, the fact that...
Mr Winston Churchill: ...of policy to which he has referred—a question which undoubtedly stands in order of prime importance so far as our affairs on the Continent of Europe are concerned—I should certainly feel it my duty to decline to open up that topic at such an hour, and in a Debate necessarily so limited. When my hon. and gallant Friend asks for information about the actual operations on the different...
Mr. CHAMBERLAIN: But there are two points about which I must say something at once. The first relates to the existing Excise Duty on Motor Spirit. That Duty yields only a trifling revenue of some £50,000 a year derived entirely, I think, from Scottish Shale Oil. But a difficult position has recently arisen in regard to benzol manufactured in this country. Before the War benzol was one of...
Mr Archibald Williamson: ..., and, of course, that is a very necessary and proper thing to do, but others have shown themselves much more backward, and it would be idle to disguise the fact that while many have done their duty well, and with great enterprise, others have failed in giving satisfaction in the service they provide. The question of fuel has also been touched upon in this Debate, and in the Report it has...
...them. The position is that a certain amount of benzol was used before the War as motor spirit, but not being very largely used it was not taxed. It is liable in the terms of the existing Act to the duty. During the War a great benzol production was secured as being vital to our interests in the War. It is undoubted that anybody who examines this industry must conclude that it was of great...
Mr Joseph Walton: ...key industry in this country, vitally affecting as it does the well-being and prosperity of the whole nation. I say unhesitatingly that coal-miners and coal-owners alike must do what is their duty towards the nation as a whole, putting aside, to some extent at any rate, selfish personal considerations. One thing above another I declare, namely, that the largely increased production of coal...
Mr Winston Churchill: ...and of the working-class democracy, at the same time keeping the show together so that it should not be unworthy of the greatness and splendour of the British Empire. That being so, I feel it my duty to reply in a very few words to the-remarks he has addressed to (he Committee, because, after all. there are several points purely of a military and technical character, and also largely of a,...
Mr David Lloyd George: ...working classes in this country to believe that Bolshevism represented the reign of freedom for the workmen of the land. If they had read as many of the documents of Bolshevism as it has been the duty of my right hon. Friends and myself to read, they would never have repeated that phrase. Yesterday there came to my hands the last proclamation of Bolshevism. I commend it to the workmen of...
Mr Edward Shortt: ...that the matter might be dealt with in an Electricity Bill. A provision was inserted in the Ways and Communications Bill by which was transferred to the Ministry of Transport all the powers and duties of the Board of Trade. I must go into this I am afraid in some little detail; because, of course, I am asking the House on the Report stage to reverse the decision of the Committee upstairs....
Mr Stanley Holmes: ...are most prosperous are those which have coal for a raw material. Our own country and Germany are striking examples of this. To this country coal has meant much. It has enabled us to supply cheap fuel to all our industries—and by cheap fuel I mean coal whose price has not been materially increased by transport charges. It has enabled us to supply cheap fuel for households and so to keep...
Mr Walter Long: I have not that figure with me, but no doubt I could get it. I understand its importance. Following upon these reductions, there have been reductions in the requirements of fuel and stores of all kinds. A footnote appears in the Estimates calling attention to the fact that the whole question of the requirements of oil fuel storage is under consideration. The total amounts are given. It may be...
Sir James Flannery: ...Curzon) referred to the international situation as complicated and dangerous, and possibly he was right. I do not care how clear the political and international atmosphere may seem. It is your duty, and I am sure you will carry it out, to make every possible preparation and such economy as is possible, and without economy if economy cannot be carried out. The Fleets which the Hoard of...
Commander Hon. Joseph Kenworthy: ...we should know the facts. There is a great shortage of oil and a greater shortage of coal, and it is right that this Committee, as guardians of the public purse and also of the supplies of fuel, should know the amount being spent by the Fleet. I do not say that fuel is being wasted, for I hope we have got back to the pre-War practice of economy. In view of the fact that we are so supreme...
Sir John Butcher: ...in cost, trouble, annoyance, and loss of economy generally. The regimental officer gets his pay fixed with so much as allowance under four or five different headings: Rations, servant, lodging, fuel and lighting, with an extra in the case of the married officer. Every Regular officer of the whole Army—and I see there is provision apart from the staffs for something like 17,000—has to...
...road users should make a substantial contribution towards the cost both of the maintenance and improvement of the roads. The Committee support the objection which I expressed to the tax on motor fuel, and they recommend that a licence duty on motor vehicles should take its place. We propose substantially to adopt the recommendations of the Committee, but the new tax cannot be brought into...
...have one result, which is a very im- portant one—there will no longer be any deterrent to the Government assisting private enterprise to do its best to provide some source of home-produced motor-fuel. At present, when the whole revenue can only be drawn from an import duty, it is obviously against the interests of the Government to encourage home production of motor-fuel. This change...
..., and other agricultural engines, not being engines or tractors used for hauling on roads any objects except their own necessary gear, threshing appliances, farming implements, or supplies of fuel or water 5s. Road locomotives, and agricultural engines, other than such engines in respect of which a duty of 5s. is chargeable— Not exceeding 8 tons in weight unladen £25 Exceeding 8 tons...
Mr William Bridgeman: ...a great many appeals from gas companies and in accordance with the promise made by the late President of the Board of Trade (Sir Auckland Geddes) that he would carry out the recommendations of the Fuel Research Board with regard to economy of coal in so far as gas is concerned. The Report of the Fuel Research Board concerning gas may be summarised as follows:— That the standard for...
Mr William Joynson-Hicks: ...said: To get any sort of criterion by which you are to get a contribution in proportion to the amount of damage done, you must introduce two elements (that is, horse-power taxation and Petrol Duty). I cannot imagine a fairer way of doing it than that which we propose. That is the present system. The Secretary of State for India, when he was Financial Secretary to the Treasury in 1915, when...
..., and other agricultural engines, not being engines or tractors used for hauling on roads any objects except their own necessary gear, threshing appliances, farming implements, or supplies of fuel or water 5s. Road locomotives and agricultural engines, other than such engines in respect of which a duty of 5s. is chargeable or which are used for haulage solely in connection with...