HC Deb 04 April 1872 vol 210 c734
MR. GRIEVE

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer, If he will lay upon the Table of the House a Copy of the Report of the Customs Authorities on the Memorial presented to the Treasury on the 24th February by the Sugar Refiners of London, &c. praying for a revision of the International Convention of 1864?

THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER

replied that the communications referred to were in the nature of confidential documents intended for the information of the Government. It had not been usual to produce them, and he must decline to produce them in the present instance.