§ 53. Lieut.-Colonel HOWARD-BURYasked the President of the Board of Trade whether he can give the figures for the import and export, of offals from the United Kingdom from 1st January to 1st June, 1927; and whether the import of offals is increasing?
Mr. SAMUELThe imports of corn offals (feeding-stuffs for animals) into the United Kingdom from January to May, inclusive, amounted to 139,532 tons, and the exports to 36,656 tons. The imports in the same period in 1926 were 150,502 tons, and in 1925, 163,847 tons. Accordingly, there has been a successive decrease in the imports in the first five months of the last three years. There has also been a successive decrease in each of the calendar years 1924, 1925 and 1926.