HC Deb 29 March 1898 vol 55 c1246
MR. W. THORBURN (Peebles and Selkirk)

I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether Her Majesty's Government have agreed to send a representative to the proposed Conference at Brussels on the sugar bounties; and if he is aware whether all the other European countries interested in the question have also consented to send representatives to the Conference?

MR. CURZON

Her Majesty's Government have accepted the invitation of the Belgian Government to send representatives to the proposed Conference. It is believed that similar answers have been sent by other foreign Governments, but we have not yet been officially informed as to which those Powers are.