§ 5. Mr. WELLOCKasked the President of the Board of Trade the quantity of steel bars capable of being rolled into sheets for the making of hollow-ware that was imported into this country in 1927 and 1928, respectively; and if he can give an estimate of the percentage of this steel that was used for making hollow-are?
§ Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTERThe imports of steel sheet bars and tinplate bars amounted in 1927 to 764,649 tons, and in 1928 to 538,935 tons. I believe that any of this material would have been capable of being converted into hollow-ware. But very little of it can have been so used, since, as the hon. Gentleman may remember, the Safeguarding Committee reported that approximately 95 per cent, of the raw material used by British hollow-ware manufacturers was produced in this country.