§ *MR. REES (Montgomery Boroughs)I beg to ask the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies whether, in view of the future development of the British Central Africa Protectorate, the Government has under consideration the question of revising arrangements made under the general Act of the Conference of Berlin and the general Act of the Brussels Conference, 955 whereby the inclusion of the said Protectorate in the South African Customs Union is practically prohibited.
§ *MR. CHURCHILLThe information at the disposal of the Secretary of State does not allow him to take it for granted that the provisions of the two general Acts to which my hon. friend refers are detrimental to the development of the Protectorate of British Central Africa. But even if that assumption could be made, the revision of the Acts would raise a large number of difficult and important questions, and could not be undertaken with reference to the interests of that Protectorate alone.