§ 12. Mr. LUMLEYasked the President of the Board of Trade what proportion of the world's sugar crop he estimates to be grown outside the British Empire?
Mr. WEBBNo official statistics are available; but those compiled by a New York firm, Messrs. Willett & Gray, show, for the year 1923–24, an estimated production of cane and beet sugar, in 1155 countries outside the British Empire, amounting to 14,867,127 tons, or 78.8 per cent. of the estimated world production.