§ 2. Sir JOHN POWERasked the President of the Board of Trade the estimated amount which this country paid overseas last year for the purchase or for the use of cinematograph films?
§ Sir PHILIP CUNLIFFE-LISTERNo precise data are available for forming an estimate of the kind desired by my hon. Friend, but I am advised that the amount remitted abroad (mainly to the 1803 United States) annually in respect of the purchase or use of films may be taken at about £3,000,000.
§ Colonel DAYCan the right hon. Gentleman say whether any of that money is remitted to Australia?
§ Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTERI cannot say that; I said mainly to the United States.
§ Mr. HARRISIs not the money remitted in the form of goods manufactured by British labour?
§ Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTERI do not know.
§ Mr. H. WILLIAMSHow is it that the declared value of the films imported is so much less than the real value?