The additional duties of excise imposed by Section eleven of the Finance (No. 2) Act, 1915, upon medicines liable to duty shall continue to be charged, levied and paid until the first day of August, nineteen hundred and twenty-three.
The Amendment on the paper in the name of the hon. Member for Govan (Mr. N. Maclean), at the end of the Clause to leave out the word "twenty-three" and to insert instead thereof the word "twenty-two," involves the negativing of the whole Clause, and it is, therefore, not in Order.
On a point of Order, 1s it not in order to move that an additional tax imposed during the War should be taken off, and the old tax standing
Division No. 155.]
| AYES.
| [12.50 a.m.
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| Agg-Gardner, Sir James Tyne | Edge, Captain Sir William | Kellaway, Rt. Hon. Fredk. George |
| Amery, Rt. Hon. Leopold C. M. S. | Edwards, Major J. (Aberavon) | Kidd, James |
| Archer-Shee, Lieut.-Colonel Martin | Elveden, Viscount | King, Captain Henry Douglas |
| Armstrong, Henry Bruce | Evans, Ernest | Lane-Fox, G. R. |
| Atkey, A. R. | Eyres-Monsell, Com. Bolton M. | Leigh, Sir John (Clapham) |
| Baird, Sir John Lawrence | Falcon, Captain Michael | Lindsay, William Arthur |
| Balfour, George (Hampstead) | Falle, Major Sir Bertram Godfrey | Locker-Lampson, Com. O. (H'tingd'n) |
| Barlow, Sir Montague | Fisher, Rt. Hon. Herbert A. L. | Lorden, John William |
| Barnett, Major Richard W. | FitzRoy, Captain Hon. Edward A. | Mallalieu, Frederick William |
| Barnston, Major Harry | Ford, Patrick Johnston | Manville, Edward |
| Bell, Lieut.-Col. W. C. H. (Devizes) | Forestier-Walker, L. | Molson, Major John Elsdale |
| Bellairs, Commander Canyon W. | Forrest, Walter | Morden, Col. W. Grant |
| Betterton, Henry B. | Foxcrott, Captain Charles Talbot | Moreing, Captain Algernon H. |
| Bigland, Alfred | Fraser, Major Sir Keith | Morrison-Belt, Major A. C. |
| Birchall, J. Dearman | Frece, Sir Walter de | Murchison, C. K. |
| Borwick, Major G. O. | Fremantle, Lieut.-Colonel Francis E. | Murray, Fit. Hon. C. D. (Edinburgh) |
| Boscawen, Rt. Hon. Sir A. Griffith- | Ganzoni, Sir John | Murray, John (Leeds, West) |
| Bowyer, Captain G. W. E. | Gee, Captain Robert | Neal, Arthur |
| Boyd-Carpenter, Major A. | Gibbs, Colonel George Abraham | Newson, Sir Percy Wilson |
| Brassey, H. L. C. | Gilmour, Lieut.-Colonel Sir John | Newton, Sir D. G. C. (Cambridge) |
| Breese, Major Charles E. | Glyn, Major Ralph | Nicholson, Brig.-Gen. J. (Westminster) |
| Bridgeman, Rt. Hon. William Clive | Goff, Sir R. Park | Nicholson, Reginald (Doncaster) |
| Briggs. Harold | Gould, James C. | Norris, Colonel Sir Henry G. |
| Brittain, Sir Harry | Hacking, Captain Douglas H. | Norton-Griffiths, Lieut.-Col. Sir John |
| Broad, Thomas Tucker | Hall, Lieut.-Col. Sir F. (Dulwich) | Parker, James |
| Brown, Brig.-Gen. H. C. (Newbury) | Hamilton. Sir George C. | Parry, Lieut.-Colonel Thomas Henry |
| Buckley, Lieut.-Colonel A. | Hannon, Patrick Joseph Henry | Pease, Rt. Hon. Herbert Pike |
| Bull, Rt. Hon. Sir William James | Harmsworth, Hon. E. C. (Kent) | Peel, Col. Hon. S. (Uxbridge, Mddx.) |
| Campion, Lieut.-Colonel W. R. | Hennessy, Major J. R. G. | Percy, Lord Eustace (Hastings) |
| Carr. W. Theodore | Hinds, John | Pollock, Rt. Hon. Sir Ernest Murray |
| Casey, T. W. | Hoare, Lieut.-Colonel Sir S. J. G | Pownall, Lieut.-Colonel Assheton |
| Cecil, Rt. Hon. Sir Evelyn (Aston) | Holbrook, Sir Arthur Richard | Rankin, Captain James Stuart |
| Chamberlain, Rt. Hn. J. A. Birm. W. | Hood, Sir Joseph | Remer, J. R. |
| Coats, Sir Stuart | Hope, Sir H. (Stirling &Cl'ckm'nn,w.) | Richardson, Sir Alex. (Gravesend) |
| Cockerill, Brigadier-General G. K. | Hope, Lt.-Col. Sir J. A. (Midlothian) | Richardson, Lt.-Col. Sir P. (Chertsey) |
| Conway, Sir W. Martin | Hopkins, John W. W. | Roberts, Rt. Hon. G. H. (Norwich) |
| Davidson, J. C. C. (Hemel Hempstead) | Horne, Sir R. S. (Glasgow, Hillhead) | Rodger, A. K. |
| Davies, Alfred Thomas (Lincoln) | Hurd, Percy A. | Roundell, Colonel R. F. |
| Davies, David (Montgomery) | Inskip, Thomas Walker H. | Samuel, A. M. (Surrey, Farnham) |
| Doyle, N. Grattan | James, Lieut.-Colonel Hon. Cuthbert | Samuel, Samuel (W'dsworth, Putney) |
| Edgar, Clifford B. | Jones, Henry Haydn (Merioneth) | Sanders, Colonel Sir Robert Arthur |
at pre-War rates allowed to remain The Amendment is really the reduction of a tax.
The purpose of Clause 5 is to continue for one year or more the additional duties imposed by Section 11 of the Finance Act, 1915. The hon. Member moves that they should be continued till 1st August, 1922. The result of that Amendment would be simply to negative the Clause, and if the hon. Member succeeds in negativing the Clause on a Division, the result would be exactly the same as carrying the Amendment.
Question put, "That the Clause stand part of the Bill."
The Committee divided: Ayes, 153; Noes, 52.
| Scott, A. M. (Glasgow, Bridgeton) | Thomson, F. C. (Aberdeen, South) | Windsor, Viscount |
| Scott, Sir Leslie (Liverp'l, Exchange) | Thomson, Sir W. Mitchell- (Maryhill) | Winterton, Earl |
| Seddon, J. A. | Townley, Maximilian G. | Wise, Frederick |
| Shortt, Rt. Hon. E. (N'castle-on-T.) | Tryon, Major George Clement | Wood, Hon. Edward F. L. (Ripon) |
| Sprot, Colonel Sir Alexander | Turton, Edmund Russborough | Wood, Sir J. (Stalybridge & Hyde) |
| Stanley, Major Hon. G. (Preston) | Vickers, Douglas | Worthington-Evans, Rt. Hon, Sir L. |
| Starkey, Captain John Ralph | Ward, William Dudley (Southampton) | Young, Sir Frederick W. (Swindon) |
| Steel, Major S. Strang | Waring, Major Walter | |
| Stephenson, Lieut.-Colonel H. K. | White, Col. G. D. (Southport) | TELLERS FOR THE AYES.—
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| Sturrock, J. Leng | Williams, C. (Tavistack) Colonel | Leslie Wilson and Mr. |
| Sugden, W. H. | Wills, Lt.-Col. Sir Gilbert Alan H. | McCurdy. |
| Sutherland, Sir William |
NOES.
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| Adamson, Rt. Hon. William | Heyday, Arthur | Sexton, James |
| Ammon, Charles George | Henderson, Rt. Hon. A. (Widnes) | Shaw, Thomas (Preston) |
| Banton, George | Hirst, G. H. | Smith, W. R. (Wellingborough) |
| Barker, G. (Monmouth, Abertillery) | Hogge, James Myles | Sutton, John Edward |
| Barton, Sir William (Oldham) | Holmes, J. Stanley | Swan, J. E. |
| Bell, James (Lancaster, Ormekirk) | John, William (Rhondda, West) | Thomson, T. (Middlesbrough, West) |
| Bowerman, Rt. Hon. Charles W. | Jones, Morgan (Caerphilly) | Thorne, W. (West Ham, Plaistow) |
| Brown, James (Ayr and Bute) | Kiley, James Daniel | Walsh, Stephen (Lancaster, Ince) |
| Cairns, John | Lawson, John James | Waterson, A. E. |
| Cape, Thomas | Lunn, William | Watts-Morgan, Lieut.-Col D |
| Carter, W. (Nottingham, Mansfield) | Lyle-Samuel, Alexander | Wedgwood, Colonel Josiah C. |
| Davies, A. (Lancaster, Clitheroe) | Maclean, Rt. Hon. Sir D. (Midlothian) | Williams, Col. P. (Middlesbrough, E.) |
| Davison, J. E. (Smethwick) | Mosley, Oswald | Wilson, James (Dudley) |
| Edwards, C (Monmouth, Bedwellty) | Newbould, Alfred Ernest | Young, Robert (Lancaster, Newton) |
| Foot, Isaac | Rae, Sir Henry N. | |
| Gillis, William | Rattan, Peter Wilson | TELLERS FOR THE NOES.—
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| Grundy, T. W. | Richardson, R. (Houghton-le-Spring) | Mr. Neil Maclean and Mr. T. |
| Guest, J. (York, W. R., Hemsworth) | Rose, Frank H. | Griffiths. |
| Hall, F. (York, W. R., Normanton) | Royce, William Stapleton | |
Motion made, and Question, "That the Chairman do report Progress, and ask leave to sit again," put, and agreed to.—[ Sir R. Horne.]
Committee report Progress; to sit again To-morrow.