asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) whether, in his forthcoming Budget, he will consider reducing the rate of purchase tax payable on educational gramophone records and those of serious classical music;(2) whether, in his forthcoming Budget, he will consider exempting language-teaching gramophone records from purchace tax;(3) whether, in his forthcoming Budget, he will consider exempting gramophone records of serious music by contemporary British composers, such as those at present subsidised by the Gulbenkian Foundation, from the payment of purchase tax.

I cannot anticipate my right hon. Friend's Budget proposals.