§ 56. Lieut.-Colonel APPLINasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether, seeing that the imports of foreign tea have, comparing 1921 with 1931, increased by 131 per cent., and that British tea increased in the same period by only 9 per cent., he will impose a preferential tariff to safeguard the British tea industry?
§ The FINANCIAL SECRETARY to the TREASURY (Major Elliot)I am unable to anticipate the Budget statement.