HC Deb 07 November 1911 vol 30 cc1467-8
Major ARCHER-SHEE

asked the President of the Board of Trade what was the total value of the exports of articles wholly or mainly manufactured from the United Kingdom to the United States, Germany, France, and Belgium collectively in the year 1910, and what was the total estimated population of those four countries taken together; and what was the total value of the same category of articles consigned to South Africa, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Newfoundland collectively during 1910, and the total estimated population of those countries?

The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the BOARD of TRADE (Mr. J. M. Robertson)

The total value of the exports from the United Kingdom in 1910 of goods wholly or mainly manufactured (exclusive of re-exports) to the foreign countries specified, was £72,580,000; and the total estimated population of those countries was about 204 million persons. The value of the exports of goods of this class to the self-governing Dominions was £67,917,000, and the total estimated population of the Dominions about eighteen and a-half million persons.

Major ARCHER-SHEE

Is the hon. Gentleman aware that one British subject in the British Dominions is as good a buyer of British goods as over ten foreigners in our principal competing nations?

Mr. SPEAKER

The hon. Member can answer that for himself.