§ MR. SEAVERNS (Lambeth, Brixton)To ask the Secretary to the Treasury if his attention has been called to the fact that a considerable number of Land Tax Commissioners in the Brixton Division of Lambeth received no summons to attend the meetings of 8th and 9th April last; if he can reconcile this fact with the information previously supplied to him that summonses had been sent to all the Commissioners in the division; will he state by whom this information was supplied; and will he call the attention of the clerks to the Commissioners in the Brixton Division to the provisions of the Act of 1906, and request them to observe these provisions in the future.
(Answered by Mr. Runciman.) The Answer to the first part of the Question is in the affirmative. I am informed
| Statement showing the average quantity and value of refined and unrefined sugar imported into the United Kingdom annually during the under mentioned periods— | ||
| Period, etc. | Quantity. | Value. |
| Cwts. | £ | |
| Imports of refined sugar: | ||
| Annual average, 1901–3 | 19,403,601 | 10,809,461 |
| Annual average, 1904–6 | 16,799,156 | 10,721,014 |
| Imports of unrefined sugar: | ||
| Annual averages, 1901–3 | 13,085,771 | 5,637,407 |
| Annual averages, 1904–6 | 14,866,158 | 7,618,612 |