To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) if he will publish on a monthly basis for this financial year the actual receipts achieved for each of the taxes collected by the Inland Revenue. [1856](2) what estimate he has made of the receipts in each month of the present financial year from each of the taxes collected by the Inland Revenue. [1857]

[holding answer 3 June 1997]: Monthly receipts of taxes collected by the Inland revenue are first published in the monthly PSBR release and further detail is supplied in table 2.1c of Financial Statistics. Estimates of receipts are not published on a monthly basis.