Written Answers To Questions
Friday, 17th March, 1950
Greyhound Racing (Taxation)
asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury what was the amount of tax collected from greyhound bookmakers and from totalisators, installed on greyhound tracks, respectively, in each week since the beginning of the year.
Exact figures are cot available for separate weeks; but since the beginning of the year the weekly receipts of Bookmakers' Licence Duty have averaged about £43,000, and of Pool Betting Duty from the totalisators at greyhound race courses about £125,000.
Royal Air Force (Grove Airfield)
asked the Secretary of State for Air whether it is intended to reopen for traffic the road across Grove airfield. near Wantage, as was agreed, when the land was first requisitioned, should be done after the war; and whether instructions will be given that the accommodation for stores as part of Milton Royal Air Force Maintenance Unit should be concentrated so that the existing runway can be used for ordinary traffic.
The runways at Grove airfield are clear of all stores and the agreement of my Department has now been given to the Ministry of Transport scheme for the opening of a road across the airfield.
Education (Size Of Classes)
asked the Minister of Education what period of time will yet be required before it will be possible to insist that no class shall exceed 30 pupils.
There are so many imponderables that it is not possible for me to make a reliable forecast.