HC Deb 15 February 1926 vol 191 cc1522-3
54. Captain CROOKSHANK

asked the Minister of Agriculture how many new sugar beet factories will be ready for the 1926 crop, and where are they, respectively, situated?

Mr. GUINNESS

The following six beet sugar factories are expected to work their first manufacturing season in 1926–27:

  • Spalding (erected in 1925),
  • Peterborough,
  • Poppleton (near York),
  • Felstead, Essex,
  • Earlestown (Lancs.),
  • Cupar, Fifeshire.
It is possible that two further factories may be erected this year at Bardney, Lincolnshire, and Frimley, Surrey.

56. Colonel BURTON

asked the Minister of Agriculture whether the Research Monograph No. 3 of the Agricultural Economics Research Institute of the University of Oxford, entitled Sugar Beet—the Results of an Inquiry into the Costs of Production, Yields and Returns in 1924, has been issued under the authority of the Ministry; and whether the Ministry accept responsibility for the statements and declarations contained in this document?

Mr. GUINNESS

The monograph was published by the Ministry, but the responsibility for statements made and opinions expressed in it rests with the authors (whose names are given on the title page), not with the Ministry.