§ BARON HENRY DE WORMS (Liverpool, East Toxteth)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he will grant a Return showing the amount of sugar produced in and exported from our sugar-producing Colonies for each of the years beginning January 1889 to 1895 inclusive?
§ THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES (Mr. SYDNEY BUXTON,) Tower Hamlets, PoplarWe shall be glad to grant the 1708 Return, and I will have it prepared as a Command Paper.
§ BARON HENRY DE WORMSI beg to ask the President of the Board of Trade whether he will grant a Return showing the condition of the sugar-refining industry and the number of refineries working (partially or otherwise) in each of the years 1889 to 1895 inclusive, in London, Liverpool, Bristol, and Greenock?
§ MR. BRYCEThe figures contained in the Parliamentary Paper 172, published in 1889, were largely obtained from information of a confidential character, and it is not certain whether those sources of information are now available. A Report, however, supplementing the Report of the above year, will be prepared and made to include, as far as possible, the information desired by the right hon. Gentleman.
§ BARON HENRY DE WORMSI beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he will grant a Return specifying the countries which give bounties on the cultivation of beet and also on the manufacture and export of sugar, showing the amounts at present so paid by each of those countries for the purposes named?
§ THE UNDER SECRETARY FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Sir EDWARD GREY,) Northumberland, BerwickA Circular was sent on the 19th of February last to Her Majesty's Representatives in all Foreign States instructing them to furnish reports which will give the desired information. When these reports have been all received, they will be laid before Parliament in a collective form.