Football Pools

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To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will publish the rates of levy for football pools and the amount received by the Consolidated Fund, in 1991 prices, for each year since 1961.

[holding answer on 19 December 1991]: The table gives the rate of pool betting duty and the amount paid to the Exchequer between 1961 and 1991. All figures are approximately indexed to 1991 prices.

	Amount paid	Duty rates
	(£'000s)	per cent
1961–62	371,255	30
1962–63	295,347	33
1963–64	309,418	33
1964–65	292,940	33¹
		25²
1965–66	289,592	25
1966–67	293,494	25
1967–68	276,346	25
1968–69	314,464	25³
		33⅓⁴
1969–70	349,898	33⅓
1970–71	320,068	33⅓
1971–72	400,977	33⅓
1972–73	417,410	33⅓
1973–74	393,714	33⅓
1974–75	407,398	40
1975–76	353,823	40
1976–77	332,827	40
1977–78	317,320	40
1978–79	309,207	40
1979–80	307,001	40
1980–81	304,562	40
1981–82	306,240	40
1982–83	323,811	42½
1983–84	318,092	42½
1984–85	322,085	42½
1985–86	328,178	42½
1986–87	343,698	42½
1987–88	360,045	42½
1988–89	342,061	42½
1989–90	345,577	42½
1990–91	315,256	40
1991–92	(n.a.)	37½
¹ To 2 August 1964.
² From 3 August 1964.
³ To 24 March 1968.
⁴ From 25 March 1968.

Volume 201: debated on Friday 20 December 1991