§ MR. JOSEPH WALTON (Yorks., W.R., Barnsley)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he will furnish a return giving particulars of the concessions for 2,800 miles of railway in China which have, up to the present, been granted to British investors?
§ MR. BRODRICKIt would be unusual for Her Majesty's Government to give particulars of concessions granted to private individuals or companies, even if the full particulars were in all cases known to them; but the figures giving the number of miles of railway as to which a preference has been secured or promised to British enterprise can be given.