HC Deb 04 August 1898 vol 64 cc100-1
MR. LABOUCHERE (Northampton)

I beg to ask the First Lord of the Treasury whether, in view of the fact that the Dominion Government and the Governments of some of the British Australasian Colonies give a bounty on several of their agricultural products, Her Majesty's Government contemplates the imposition of a countervailing duty on such bounty-fed products imported" into the United Kingdom, in order to protect British and Irish agriculturists against this fiscal arrangement?

THE FIRST LORD OF THE TREASURY

The answer to this Question is in the negative.