§ 3. Commander BELLAIRSasked the President of the Board of Trade what was the total quantity of iron and steel exported to foreign countries for the latest available year, and what quantity was imported from foreign countries and retained at home, and whether he can state, in regard to exports, how much of it represented foreign iron and steel to which merely finishing processes were added in Great Britain?
§ Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTERThe total exports classified in the trade returns as "Iron and Steel and manufactures thereof," manufactured in the United Kingdom, amounted in 1928 to 4,261,000 tons, and of these 2,055,000 tons were consigned to foreign countries. The quantity of goods similarly classified which were imported and retained in the United Kingdom in that year was 2,887,000 tons, only a small part of which was not consigned from foreign countries. I am not in a position to answer the last part of the question.