§ 21. Mr. ANNESLEY SOMERVILLEasked the President of the Board of Trade the amount of coal and the value of machinery shipped from this country to the West Indies last year, and the amount of homeward cargoes of sugar?
§ Mr. W. GRAHAMWith the hon. Member's permission, I will circulate the figures in the OFFICIAL REPORT.
| The following TABLE shows the total quantity and declared value of Coal, Coke, Manufactured Fuel and Machinery exported from the United Kingdom and registered as consigned to the British West Indies during the year 1929. | ||||||
| Description. | Exports (U.K. Produce and Manufactures) consigned to | |||||
| British West India Islands. | British Honduras. | British Guiana. | ||||
| Quantity. | Declared Value. | Quantity. | Declared Value. | Quantity. | Declared Value. | |
| Tons. | £ | Tons. | £ | Tons. | £ | |
| Coal | 46,139 | 42,285 | 520 | 947 | 3,685 | 3,220 |
| Coke | 96 | 181 | — | — | 52 | 111 |
| Manufactured Fuel … | 3,050 | 3,203 | — | — | 3,045 | 3,177 |
| Machinery and parts thereof | 2,789 | 250,491 | 75 | 7,074 | 572 | 47,559 |
| NOTE.—The exports of imported machinery during 1929 were as follows:—Consigned to British West India Islands 1 ton, valued at £932, to British Honduras less than ½ ton, valued at £30, and to British Guiana less than ½ ton, valued at £261. |
| The following TABLE shows the total quantity and declared value of Sugar imported into the United Kingdom and registered as consigned from the British West Indies during the year 1929. | ||||
| — | Total Imports into United Kingdom consigned from | |||
| British West India Islands. | British Guiana. | |||
| Quantity. | Declared Value. | Quantity. | Declared Value. | |
| Cwts. | £ | Cwts. | £ | |
| Sugar: | ||||
| Refined | 42 | 46 | 25 | 35 |
| Unrefined | 1,326,474 | 960,674 | 511,885 | 359,954 |
| NOTE.—No imports of Sugar into the United Kingdom were registered as consigned from British Honduras during 1929. | ||||
| The figures given in each of the above tables are provisional. |