35. Lieut.-Colonel SANDEMAN ALLENasked the Minister of Agriculture how much of the machinery in beet-sugar factories which receive the subsidy is British made?
§ Sir J. GILMOUROn a cost basis, about 80 per cent. of the plant and machinery, installed in British beet-sugar factories up to 31st March, 1931, for the manufacture of sugar and molasses from home-grown beet, is British made.
Lieut.-Colonel SANDEMAN ALLENCan the right hon. Gentleman assure the House that in future the machinery in subsidised factories will be 100 per cent. British?
§ Sir J. GILMOURThe terms of the Act under which the present subsidies run lay it down that at least 75 per cent. must be made in this country.