§ MR. FELL (Great Yarmouth)To ask Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer if, having regard to the fact that beetroot sugar to the value of over £16,000,000 was consumed in the United Kingdom in the past year, he would be prepared to assist the persons proposing to put up factories in Suffolk and Lincolnshire for the manufacture of beet sugar by giving them the assurance that an Excise duty will not be imposed on the sugar they may produce, at any rate for a term of years.
(Answered by Mr. Asquith.) No, Sir.