§ MR. MORRELL (Oxfordshire, Woodstock)To ask the President of the Board of Agriculture what progress has been made with the inquiry into the practical value of growing sugar beet in this country as a commercial product for manufacture into sugar; what number of factories, and where situated, are producing sugar from English-grown beet, and with what success; and what price does sugar so turned out realise.
359 (Answered by Mr. Ailwyn Fellowes.) So far as I am aware, no factories in Great Britain have as yet been established for the extraction of sugar from English-grown beet, but I am informed that the subject is under consideration in more than one quarter, from which the capital required for the purpose may possibly be forthcoming. I do not think that we can carry our own inquiries any further until the feasibility of the proposal has been tested on a commercial basis.