asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what reply the Kenya Government have made to the request of the African-elected members of the Legislative Council that an independent inquiry should be held into conditions in prison and detention camps and that, as members of the Legislative Council, they should be permitted to visit the prisons and camps.

A motion calling for such an inquiry was rejected by the Legislative Council on 27th June. During the debate some Members suggested that they should be allowed to visit prisons and camps, and the Government replied that the Commissioner of Prisons would consider requests to visit prisons, but not Emergency detention camps.

asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he will arrange for the text of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights to be made available in all Colonies in English and in the languages mainly used there.

Local reproduction of the Declaration is a matter for consideration by Colonial Governments. The Declaration was brought to their notice when it was drawn up and I shall be recalling it to their attention in connection with its tenth anniversary later this year.

asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies the numbers of Africans and Europeans, respectively, who are employed at the high-grade iron ore mine near Blantyre in Nyasaland; what are their average monthly wages; what apprenticeship schemes are in operation; and what opportunities are given to Africans to qualify for skilled jobs.

One hundred and thirty-six Africans and four Europeans are at present employed. The salaries of the four Europeans, who occupy senior supervisory posts, average £100 a month. The African employees receive from £4 19s. 6d. to £40 a month. The mine was started on an exploratory basis only and no apprentice or other training schemes are yet in operation.

asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies the number of students from West African territories under the administration of Her Majesty's Government who are receiving engineering apprenticeships in the United Kingdom; and what is the number who have qualified under apprenticeship schemes for the years 1955 to 1957, respectively.

So far as I am aware, no students are actually apprenticed: but there are 95 students from West African territories undergoing practical training by attachment to engineering firms in the United Kingdom. During the years 1955, 1956, and 1957, 37, 52 and 70 students, respectively, completed their practical attachments and returned to West Africa.

asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies the number of African miners who have been rendered unemployed as a result of the economies in the Bancroft and other copper mines in Northern Rhodesia and have been re-employed in connection with the Government's development schemes in the Northern and Luapala provinces; and what wages are being paid for such employment.

Up to the end of May the number of African miners employed at Bancroft and other copper mines had fallen by 6,538, and of these 947 from Bancroft have been repatriated to the Northern and Luapula provinces. I regret that I am unable to say how many of these have been re-employed in connection with development schemes in those provinces. The daily wages paid by Government range from 2s. 2d. to 5s. for unskilled and semi-skilled labour to 10s. 4d. for skilled workmen.

asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies on what grounds Mr. S. U. Bassey, General-Secretary of the All-Nigerian Trade Union Federation, was refused travel documents to attend the 42nd Conference of the International Labour Office to which he had been nominated as the workers' representative.

I have asked the Acting Governor-General for this information and I will write to the hon. Member when I have his reply.

asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he is now in a position to say what arrangements have been made to set up a resettlement bureau or otherwise assist the re-employment of those officers of the Eastern and Western Regions of Nigeria who will be retiring under the arrangements made for self-government.

I regret that I cannot yet add to my reply to the hon. Member for West Stirlingshire (Mr. Balfour) on 25th February.

asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies the numbers of African and Arab nurses, respectively, from the Zanzibar Protectorate who are studying in the United Kingdom.

Eight student nurses from the Zanzibar Protectorate are training in the United Kingdom. There are two Arabs, one Comorian, one Sherazi, one Goan and three Indians.

asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies how many Africans and Arabs, respectively, from the Zanzibar Protectorate, have qualified as doctors at Makerere University College; and how many of these have since been awarded Government bursaries to London teaching hospitals.

I am consulting the British Resident and will write to the hon. Member when I have his reply.

asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether Antonis Procopiou Salamentos who was sentenced to life imprisonment and escaped from the Nicosia Mental Hospital in Cyprus on 1st June, 1958, has been recaptured; on what grounds he was transferred to the mental hospital; and what arrangements were there made for his safe custody.

He has not yet been recaptured. He was transferred to the mental hospital on the certificate of the medical authorities as being in need of observation and treatment. He was in a coma when removed from the Central Prison and in view of this and of the considerable diversion of effort required to provide a military guard at the asylum his custody was left entirely to the asylum staff.

asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether Polycarpos Georghiades who escaped from the Central Prison, Nicosia, in Cyprus, on 1st May, 1958, has been recaptured; and how many previous escapes he had made.

The answer to the first part of the Question is "No." With regard to the second part, I have nothing to add to the information given to my hon. Friend in reply to his question on 10th June.

asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies the latest figures for unemployment in Mauritius; and what schemes the Government of that colony have proposed to find work for the jobless.

The latest figures of registered unemployed is 2,050. The development programme for 1957–62, which has been approved by the Legislature, includes capital works and the development of new industries which will provide extensive work for the unemployed. A copy of the plan is being placed in the Library.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department the approximate weekly sum now being paid out for the maintenance of British refugees from Egypt.

About £3,650 a week is at present being paid by the Anglo-Egyptian Resettlement Board for the maintenance of refugees.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will now order a special review and analysis of the remaining cases of British refugees from Egypt not yet re-established in employment.

This has already begun.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what inquiries are made before immigrants from Commonwealth countries are allowed to land in this country.

British subjects are free to enter this country and the only inquiries made are those necessary to establish nationality.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many persons could be accommodated in the air-raid shelters still standing in the borough and rural district of Newcastle-under-Lyme in the event of air bombardment.

About 3,300.

asked the Under-Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations what steps are being taken to safeguard British interests in Ceylon in view of its present disturbed state.

As I said in my reply to the hon. Member for Middleton and Prestwich (Sir J. Barlow) on 26th June, there has so far been no indication of any serious threat to United Kingdom lives and property. Her Majesty's Government are confident that the Ceylon authorities will continue to discharge their responsibilities in this respect. The United Kingdom High Commissioner is keeping in close touch with the situation.

asked the Under-Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations if he will make a statement about his visit to the High Commission Territories of Southern Africa.

I visited Basutoland, Swaziland and Bechuanaland Protectorate successively during the period 2nd to 14th June, spending four or five days in each. In Basutoland I met the Paramount Chief and her Advisers, had meetings with representatives of the Administration, prominent Basuto citizens and members of the European community. I visited the headquarters of District Commissioners, schools, hospitals, soil conservation schemes and other aspects of social and economic development. In Swaziland I met the Paramount Chief and some of his Advisers, visited sugar areas, forests and the cattle ranches being developed by the C.D.C. and by private investment. I met representatives of the Administration and the European Advisory Council and had an opportunity of seeing something of the work being done to improve road communications and the benefits of the progress made in eliminating disease.

In Bechuanaland I visited four main centres east of the Kalahari. I met representatives of the Administration and representative groups of the Joint Advisory Council, the Bamangwato tribe and the farmers and traders in the Tati Concession. I again had an opportunity of seeing the working of the social services in the Protectorate and of visiting the C.D.C's Lobatsi Abattoir. At the end of this tour I had discussions with the High Commissioner in Pretoria and took the opportunity of paying courtesy calls upon the Prime Minister and Minister for External Affairs of the Union of South Africa.

asked the Under-Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations if he will ask the Governments of India and Pakistan to inform him periodically of the number of passports issued to their nationals who wish to immigrate to this country under the new regulations for the control of such passports which have recently been officially announced to him by those governments.

I am grateful for my hon. Friend's suggestion, but I do not think that the particular information he suggests would be useful as there is no close connection between the number of passports the Governments of India and Pakistan are currently issuing and the number of persons currently arriving in the United Kingdom from those two countries. I am, however, pursuing with the two Commonwealth Governments other suggestions for controlling the number of migrants and the Commonwealth Governments are being most helpful.

asked the Minister of Education whether he will now make provision to reduce the maximum size of classes in primary schools to 30, as well as in secondary schools, and set a date for achieving this reform.

No. I cannot add anything to the Answer given to the hon. Member for Newcastle-under-Lyme (Mr. Swingler) by my hon. Friend the Parliamentary Secretary on 19th June.

asked the Minister of Education to give the number of grammar school places that are available in Harlow, Essex, to students who have just taken the 11-plus examination, the number of students who sat for the examination, and the number who attained the standard but for whom places were not available; and how these figures compare with Edmonton, Tottenham, and the country generally.

By next September four secondary schools in Harlow will offer grammar or technical courses to selected pupils. These courses are not restricted to Harlow children, nor are Harlow children who qualify for courses of this kind confined to a choice of one of these schools. 726 children from Harlow took the Authority's tests this year; grammar or technical courses will be available to all who qualify.

I am sending the hon. Member a copy of List 69 which shows the distribution of children between different types of secondary school in the area of each local education authority. I have no figures for the separate parts of such areas.

asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he will permit persons wishing to import flower bulbs from Holland and other countries to acquire quotas for that purpose.

The quotas are already shared among some 7,000 importers including distributors and growers. Only for most exceptional reasons can this number be increased.

asked the President of the Board of Trade how many people, men and women, respectively, were employed in the factories in Sunderland administered by the North-Eastern Trading Estates Limited, on the latest available date.

At May, 1958, 2,263 men and boys and 2,803 women and girls, a total of 5,066, were employed in these factories.

asked the President of the Board of Trade how many people, men and women, respectively, were employed in the factories administered by the North-Eastern Trading Estates Limited, on the latest available date.

At May, 1958, 22,054 men and boys and 28,839 women and girls, making a total of 50,893, were employed in these factories.

asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he has yet given a further direction to the Registrar of Restrictive Trading Agreements about the order in which registered agreements are to be taken before the Restrictive Practices Court.

At the request of the Minister of Commerce in the Government of Northern Ireland, a direction has today been sent to the Registrar, the text of which is as follows:

RESTRICTIVE TRADE PRACTICES ACT, 1956.

DIRECTION WITH RESPECT TO THE ORDER OF PROCEEDINGS BEFORE THE RESTRICTIVE PRACTICES COURT.

WHEREAS the Board of Trade on the 16th day of April, 1957, gave to the Registrar a Direction (hereinafter referred to as "the Principal Direction") with respect to the order of proceedings before the Restrictive Practices Court in respect of agreements described in the Schedule thereto and therein referred to as "scheduled agreements"

AND WHEREAS the Board of Trade on the 3rd day of September, 1957, and the 28th day of March, 1958, gave to the Registrar further Directions with respect to such order of proceedings which had the effect of adding to the agreements described in the Schedule to the Principal Direction

Now THEREFORE the Board of Trade in pursuance of Section 1 of the Restrictive Trade Practices Act, 1956( a ), hereby direct that agreements under which restrictions (being restrictions by virtue of which such agreements are subject to registration under the Registration of Restrictive Trading Agreements Order, 1956( b )) are accepted by any of the parties in relation to the supply by them, in the course of their business, of coal and other solid fuel in Northern Ireland shall also be added to the Schedule to the Principal Direction which shall have the effect as if such agreements were also scheduled agreements.

Dated this 3rd day of July, 1958.

(Signed) G. H. ANDREW,

A Secretary of the Board of Trade.

( a ) 4 & 5 Eliz. 2, c. 68. ( b ) S.I. 1956/1869.

asked the President of the Board of Trade why, under the present Regulations, strawberries are not sold by weight in the shops under the same conditions as apples.

Neither apples nor strawberries are at present required to be sold by weight, but in Regulations to be laid later this year my right hon. Friend proposes to apply this provision to strawberries.

asked the President of the Board of Trade if he is aware of the British Trade Fair to be held in Lisbon from 29th May to 14th June, 1959; and what are his plans to have Scottish trade, industry and culture fully represented at it.

This Fair is being organised by the Federation of British Industries to show goods of all kinds manufactured in the United Kingdom. The Federation hope that many Scottish firms will take part. An official stand in the Fair will be arranged by the Board of Trade; it is intended that it should display products of Scotland as well as of other parts of the United Kingdom. There will also be a series of public events in Lisbon at the time of the Fair which the organisers hope will include representations of the life and culture of Scotland.

asked the Minister of Works whether Mr. Raymond Erith, F.R.I.B.A., has been instructed to draw up plans for the reconstruction of Nos. 10–12 Downing Street, on the specific basis of the recommendations in paragraphs 23–26 of the Crawford Report; when it is hoped to receive his plans; and when the Government propose to take action to implement them.

Mr. Erith is being instructed to draw up preliminary plans in accordance with these recommendations of the Crawford Report. I hope that sketch plans will be ready within the next few months, but the preparatory work will take at least eighteen months to complete and I am not able to say at this stage when the plans will be implemented.

asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty in what condition eight manganese bronze propellers, sold under Public Tender No. 52706/58/SC1853 (Lot 8), were at the time of the sale; and whether he is satisfield that they were not allowed to deteriorate into a scrap condition before-hand.

These propellers could only be fitted in M. class destroyers, which are no longer in service. They were, in fact, in serviceable condition at the time of sale, and no complaints have been received from the purchaser.

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he has now received from the Soviet Embassy a full explanation with regard to the unauthorised landing of Russian seamen on Scottish soil.

As my hon. and gallant Friend will have seen from the answer given by my right hon. and learned Friend in the House yesterday, the Soviet Embassy have not yet replied to the Foreign Office Note on this subject.

asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, as representing the Lord President of the Council, what measurements have been made of the level of strontium 90 from fall-out in the Thurrock urban district; and whether future samples will be taken at regular intervals in the area.

Representative samples of air, water, soil, vegetation and human and animal bone are taken from various parts of the country and analysed for Strontium 90. In addition, a countrywide programme of food sampling is now in progress to survey the level of strontium 90 in the national diet. A number of samples are taken in Essex and a proportion of a sample of milk which is being regularly collected and analysed comes from a creamery in the Thurrock district.

asked the Minister of Health what percentage of the total cost in the last 12 months of the health services was spent on mental health services; and how this was divided between hospital services and community services, respectively.

In the last financial year for which accounts are available—the year ended 31st March, 1957—about 11½ per cent. of the total cost (about £585 million) of the National Health Service is identifiable as having been spent on mental health services. This includes 11 per cent. by hospitals (about 19¼ per cent. of their expenditure) and ½ per cent. by local health authorities (about 5½ per cent. of their expenditure).

Certain administrative expenses of hospital authorities which cannot readily be identified with individual hospitals, and the cost of beds for mental illness in acute hospitals which cannot be separately ascertained are not included as part of the cost of mental health services. Similarly local health authorities incur some additional expenditure on mental health which is not separable from that on their other services.

asked the Minister of Labour how many workers registered as being employed in the Scottish flax industry wore unemployed at the most convenient date in each year since 1951; and what percentage they formed of the labour force in the industry.

The following table gives the information desired.

NUMBERS OF UNEMPLOYED PERSONS, LAST EMPLOYED IN THE LINEN AND SOFT HEMP INDUSTRY, ON THE REGISTERS OF EMPLOYMENT EXCHANGES IN SCOTLAND AT THE UNDERMENTIONED DATES. Date Males Females Total Number Per cent. of total number of employees 21st May, 1951 … … … 50 113 163 1.4 12th May, 1952 … … … 65 287 352 3.2 11th May, 1953 … … … 75 368 443 4.5 10th May, 1954 … … … 63 240 303 3.4 16th May, 1955 … … … 49 155 204 2.3 14th May, 1956 … … … 82 199 281 3.3 13th May, 1957 … … … 102 263 365 4.5 12th May, 1958 … … … 141 415 556 6.9

asked the Minister of Labour how many people were employed in the Scottish flax industry at the most convenient date in each year since 1951.

The following table gives the information desired.

Estimated numbers of employees in employment in the linen and soft hemp industry in Scotland at the undermentioned dates. Date Males Females Total End-May, 1951 … 3,400 7,900 11,300 End-May, 1952 … 3,100 7,500 10,600 End-May, 1953 … 3,000 6,500 9,500 End-May, 1954 … 2,700 5,900 8,600 End-May, 1955 … 2,700 5,800 8,500 End-May, 1956 … 2,700 5,700 8,400 End-May, 1957 … 2,400 5,400 7,800

Figures for 1958 are not yet available.

asked the Paymaster-General to what extent experiments are being conducted in the use of waste from coal mines for the development of a cheap source of aluminium and iron; and if he mill make a statement on the progress and prospects.

Waste from British coal mines rarely contains more than 20 per cent. of iron and 15 per cent. of aluminium and it would be quite uneconomic to attempt the extraction of these metals from such a source.

asked the Postmaster-General how many new telephones have been installed in the Wimbledon area since 1st January, 1958; how many cancellations there have been from the same date; and what is the size of the waiting list.

In the borough of Wimbledon 354 telephones were installed between 1st January and 30th June, 1958; 96 orders were cancelled in that period. On 30th June, 90 applications were on the waiting list, and in addition 163 were in course of provision or under inquiry.

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland how many death certificates were received in 1957 on which there was mention of vaccination, vaccinia, post-vaccinal encephalitis or other complication of vaccination; and what were the ages of those so certified.

The only case recorded was one relating to a child aged under one year whose death was certified as due to post-vaccinal encephalitis.

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland what was the attack rate of paralytic poliomyelitis for children under 15 years, and for persons over 15 years for each of the years 1950 to 1957, inclusive.

Separate figures in respect of paralytic poliomyelitis are not available. Experience has shown that about 65 per cent. of all the notifications relate to this form of the disease and the following table gives rates on this basis:— Rates per 100,000 population — Children under 15 years of age Persons over 15 years of age 1950 … … 47.3 2.5 1951 … … 11.7 1.5 1952 … … 8.9 0.7 1953 … … 15.3 1.2 1954 … … 17.2 1.5 1955 … … 25.5 1.8 1956 … … 10.7 1.1 1957 … … 6.1 0.9

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland how many vaccinated children developed poliomyelitis in 1957.

During 1957 notifications were received that poliomyelitis developed in eight of the 290,000 children who had been vaccinated in 1956 and 1957. Of these eight, only three were affected by paralysis in any degree. The total number of children under 15 who contracted poliomyelitis in 1957 was 122.

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland what steps he intends to take to bring the individual grants to students in Scotland on to a level of parity with those in England.

The Education Authority Bursaries (Scotland) (Amendment No. 1) Provisional Regulations, 1958, which are being laid before Parliament today, will ensure that grants continue to be on generally similar levels in Scotland and in England. As was announced on 25th June, my right hon. Friend the Minister of Education and I have set up a Committee to consider all aspects of grants to students taking courses of higher education in both countries.

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he has now received from Ross and Cromarty County Council a request for a grant towards the cost of constructing a road between North Tolsta and Ness in the Isle of Lewis; and what decision he has taken.

I have received no such request from the County Council.

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland what progress has been made with the scheme for marine protection works at the Eye Peninsula, Isle of Lewis; and if he will make a statement, including an itemised estimate of the cost to the local authority and his Department, respectively.

I understand that work on this scheme was begun on 19th May. The estimated cost of the works is £65,266. Under the Coast Protection Act, 1949, Ross and Cromarty County Council have been offered, and have accepted a grant of £19,561 towards this expenditure. In addition, loan charges incurred by the County Council in respect of the remaining cost will be taken into account in fixing the Exchequer Equalisation Grant payable to the Council.

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland what progress has been made towards the provision of a water supply for the Ness area of the Isle of Lewis.

The County Council's programme of water supply schemes includes one for the Ness area, work on which is expected to start early in 1960.

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland what request he has received from Inverness County Council for a grant towards the cost of constructing jetties at Scalpay and Kyles Scalpay, Isle of Harris; and what decision he has taken.

I have just received from the Inverness County Council a list of projects for consideration under the Congested Districts (Scotland) Act, 1897, including the Scalpay jetties. I have not yet reached any decision on the projects included in this list.

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what has been the percentage increase in profits, dividends and bonus share issues between August, 1951, and the latest available date.

Gross trading profits of companies and public corporations trading in the United Kingdom increased by 28 per cent. between the calendar years 1951 and 1957; dividend and interest payments increased by 68 per cent. No figures of bonus share issues are available which would enable a valid answer to be given.

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer why an instrument designed for the diagnosis of bowel cancer and given for use at Amersham, Buckinghamshire, by the Memorial Centre for Cancer and Allied Diseases, New York, particulars of which have been sent to him, was subject to long delay and to duty on admission to this country.

The gift of this instrument was both unsolicited and unexpected,

Class Quantity Receipts of Duty Gallons £ Oils chargeable with Customs duty — Light oils: 2,028,119,842 *254,816,656 Of which motor (including aviation) spirit (1,979,788,782) (248,777,393) Heavy oils: For use as road fuel 483,287,216 60,891,285 Other (mainly lubricating oils) 152,202,922 634,179 Oils chargeable with Excise duty — Light oils: 136,354,219 8,721,320 Of which motor (including aviation) spirit (82,731,071) (5,258,245) Heavy oils for use as road fuel 24,277,051 1,544,386 TOTAL 326,607,826 Allowance on certain home produced oils used in approved refineries as raw material for chemical synthesis 4,845,421 NET TOTAL 321,762,405 These particulars relate to oil subject to a net liability to Customs or Excise duty; comparable figures are not available in respect of heavy oils for which the duty is wholly rebated. * Includes £19,221 in respect of light oils contained in composite goods on which oil duty was charged at a flat rate under the Composite Goods Order, 1957, and for which information as to the quantity of oil is not available.

with the result that additional information had to be sought and all necessary formalities completed after its arrival. There is no general exemption from Customs duty in respect of gifts, but I am looking into the possibility of making a concession in this particular case and will write to my hon. Friend.

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what was the quantity of bonded and unbonded styrene delivered to authorised refineries during the financial year 1957–58; what was the total of duty paid; and what was the total of drawback claimed.

I regret that this information is not available.

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will state the amount of each class of hydrocarbon oils retained for home consumption during the year ended 31st March, 1958, and the net amount received in respect of duty thereon, showing, in particular, the amounts received in respect of motor spirit and heavy oils used as fuel in road vehicles.

The required particulars are as follows:

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will ensure that the problem of providing capital for farm and other rural electricity extension schemes as well as for reinforcement of existing supplies, which is particularly heavy in the Devon sector of the South Western Electricity Boards area, is fully taken into consideration during the review now being made with a view to a relaxation of restrictions in the public sector of investment.

I know that the electricity boards, in consultation with the Electricity Council, have taken the demand for rural electrification into account in submitting their proposals for the purpose of the current review of investment. The size of the programme eventually agreed upon will depend, however, on a great many factors; and the division of that programme between the various purposes which it covers will be considered in relation to the total requirements of the boards.

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what steps he has taken to ensure that banks in areas of high local unemployment have informed their customers of the relaxation he has recommended in credit restrictions.

— January, 1958 February, 1958 March, 1958 April, 1958 £ £ £ £ Pool betting duty receipts — At 30 per cent. on football and similar pools 3,076,782 2,314,970 2,463,823 2,515,114 At 10 per cent. on greyhound totalisators 439,540 369,979 394,432 511,847 Bookmakers' licence duty 128,316 103,904 120,831 143,005 TOTALS 3,644,638 2,788,853 2,979,086 3,169,966

In his Budget Speech on 15th April, my right hon. Friend said: "I am confirming to the Capital Issues Committee and to the banks that the Government would not wish any projects for sound development in areas where unemployment is substantially above the average to be held back by lack of credit or finance". This statement received considerable publicity at the time and subsequently, and I do not think that further action by the Government is required to bring it to the notice of bank customers.

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what expenses have been incurred in connection with the Premium Bonds Scheme, including the cost of the Electronic Random Number Indicator Equipment to the end of April, 1958; and what were the monthly totals of tax receipts from football pools, greyhound racing, and from bookmakers' licence duty, respectively, for the months January to April, 1958 inclusive.

The total of prizes under the Premium Savings Bonds Scheme up to the end of April, 1958, was £4.5 million. Administrative expenses, including advertising, and the cost of ERNIE. have amounted to about £2¾ million.

Receipts of pool betting duty and of bookmakers' licence duty for these four months were as follows: