§ 28. Mr. A. V. ALEXANDERasked the Minister of Agriculture the aggregate number of hundredweights of refined sugar produced during the past year by the British sugar-beet factories and the actual amount of subsidy paid to them during this period on such sugar?
Mr. GUINNESSDuring the 1925–26 manufacturing season the quantity of white granulated sugar for direct consumption produced at the beet sugar factories was 897,892 cwts. In addition 15 128,513 cwts. of beet sugar were produced at the factories for further refining. The total subsidy paid to date in respect of last season's output of beet sugar is £1,002,382.
§ Mr. ALEXANDERIs the last figure given by the right hon. Gentleman exclusive of the subsidy they get from the preferential rate of Excise