§ 48. Mr. HEWINSasked the Prime Minister whether the Trading with the 1931 Enemy Committee and the Contraband Committee are being continuously informed by the Board of Trade and by His Majesty's representatives abroad of the quantities imported into neutral countries of goods in certain classes; whether the information, if any, so obtained is sufficient for the purposes of those Committees and to guide the Government in any action they might deem it expedient to take; and, if not, will he take other steps by the appointment of a Special Statistical Committee, or otherwise, to obtain this information?
§ The PRIME MINISTERThe answer to the first two paragraphs of this question is in the affirmative. A statistical section has been formed at the War Trade Department, where all available information from other Departments concerned is collected and tabulated.