§ SIR HOWARD VINCENT (Sheffield, Central)To ask the Secretary to the Board of Trade if the new Patent Rules for 1905 have been laid upon the Table, and if opportunity will be afforded of discussing them before the expiration of the statutory period, and when this date will be reached.
(Answered by Mr. Bonar Law.) The Rules were laid upon the Table of the House on February 15th, and the period of forty days within which the House may resolve that the Rules or any of them ought to be annulled expires today.
| United Kingdom. | France. | Germany. | Italy. | |
| Duty on imported wheat par imperial quarter in 1904 | nil | 12s. 3d. | 7s. 7d. | 13s. |
| Average price of wheat per imperial quarter in 1904. | 28s. 4d. (English Gazette Price) | 36s. 9d. | 38s. (Berlin price) | 41s. 11d. |
| 30s. (Average import value) | 36s. 9d. (Breslau price) | |||
| Percentage of imports to total supply (cereal year 1903–4) | 82 | 2.9 | 37.2 | 13.4 |