§ 53. Mr. HARMSWORTHasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he is aware of the need and demand of the agricultural industry for an import duty on barley; and whether he will consider the question of publishing the Report of the Treasury Committee which investigated the subject of a duty?
§ Mr. CHURCHILLI would refer my hon. Friend to the answer which I gave to the hon. Member for Sudbury (Colonel Burton) on the 10th November, of which I am sending him a copy.
§ Mr. HARMSWORTHMay I ask the right hon. Gentleman for an answer to the last part of the question about publishing the Report of the Committee?
§ Mr. CHURCHILLThat is the point most specifically covered by the answer to which I have referred.
§ Mr. HARMSWORTHCan the right hon. Gentleman circulate a White Paper giving the full reasons for his refusal to grant a duty?
§ Mr. CHURCHILLI think it is much better that some such statement should be elicited in debate.
§ Mr. HARMSWORTHDoes not the right hon. Gentleman know that a former Conservative Minister of Agriculture has emphatically stated that this is possible?