§ MR. ORMSBY-GORE (Lincolnshire, Gainsborough)I beg to ask Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer if, in view of Section 10 of the Finance Act, 1901, not covering the existing contracts between maltsters and brewers in the United Kingdom, he would exempt such contracts for barley imported for malting purposes from the operation of the proposed duty on corn.
§ SIR M. HICKS BEACHI cannot say whether the section covers or does not cover the particular class of contracts referred to. But in any case I could not propose to Parliament the exemption of such contracts from the corn duty.