§ MR. R. DUNCAN (Lanarkshire, Govan)I beg to ask the President of the Board of Trade if he can inform the House what were the amounts and value of the machinery for sugar manufacture exported from the United Kingdom during the years 1898 to 1902 inclusive, and during the years 1903 to 1907 inclusive; and, if he can say what were the figures for such exports to the British West Indies for the same periods.
§ MR. LLOYD-GEORGEI am unable to give the information asked for as no separate record is kept by the Customs Department of the exports of machinery for sugar manufacture. As I informed the hon. Member for Darlington on the 23rd instant, the question of the revision of the classification of machinery in the official trade accounts will be considered by a Departmental Committee during the autumn.