Malcolm Moss (North East Cambridgeshire, Conservative)

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer

(1) what assessment he has made of the effects on revenue from amusement machine licence duty of closures of (a) adult gaming centres and (b) family entertainment centres in the last 12 months;

(2) how much amusement machine licence duty was paid on licences for (a) category B2 and (b) category B3 gaming machines in the last year for which information is available; and what his assessment is of the extraction rates from each category of machine;

(3) how much revenue was generated by amusement machine licence duty in 2007-08; and how much revenue he estimates will be generated by the duty in (a) 2008-09 and (b) 2009-10.

Stephen Timms (Financial Secretary, HM Treasury; East Ham, Labour)

The total annual and monthly receipts from amusement machine licence duty can be found in the HM Revenue and Customs Betting and Gaming Statistical Bulletin, which is available from the HMRC website address at:

http://www.uktradeinfo.co.uk/index.cfm?task=bullbett

Information on amusement machine licence duty broken down by the type of premises where gaming machines are located is not available.

In 2007-08, it is estimated that category B2 machines paid around £60 million in amusement machine licence duty and category B3 machines paid around £10 million in amusement machine licence duty.

No estimates are available of extraction rates from each category of machine.

Betting and Gaming duty revenue forecasts are aggregated and published as a single series in table B13 of the latest pre-Budget report, at the following link:

http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/d/pbr08_annexb_262.pdf

Disaggregated estimates for individual duties within the overall revenue forecast for Betting and Gaming duties are not available.