HC Deb 20 December 1933 vol 284 c1292
40. Mr. ALEXANDER RAMSAY

asked the Secretary for Mines if he will state the increased consumption of coal and the increase in home-produced heavy fuel oil, resulting from the imposition of a duty on imported heavy oil, in the current financial year?

Mr. E. BROWN

I would refer my hon. Friend to the reply to a question on this subject given on 4th December by my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer to my hon. Friend the Member for Willesden, East (Mr. D. G. Somerville).