Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Post Office. – in the House of Commons at on 24 July 1923.
Mr John Clynes
, Manchester Platting
asked the Prime Minister the total sum of revenue received from the Entertainments Duty since its commencement to the end of the last financial year; what the amount was for that year; and whether, in view of the tax being continued, he can now take steps to encourage and assist deserving movements in dramatic art and education and, as some acknowledgment of our great indebtedness to Shakespeare, undertake to provide from the Entertainments Tax revenue an adequate sum to endow the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford, and establish and maintain a national theatre in London?