§ 81. Captain PETER MACDONALDasked the Minister of Agriculture whether he is giving any assistance to the project to set up a sugar-beet factory at Chichester; and whether, in view of the better price which a factory so situated would enable farmers in the Isle of Wight and southern counties to obtain for their sugar beet, he will co-operate with the sponsors of the scheme and give them some indication of what measure of Government financial assistance will be available at the end of the present subsidy period for the increased sugar-beet crop consequent upon the erection of this and other new factories?
§ Major ELLIOTThe answer is in the negative. The Government have not yet considered what further assistance, if any, should be given to the beet-sugar industry after the expiration of the British Sugar (Subsidy) Act, 1925, and I regret that I am unable, therefore, to make any pronouncement at the present time.