§ 56. Mr. MAINWARINGasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury if he will provide a return giving a complete list of all industries and/or processes separately receiving financial aids or subsidies, either directly from the Treasury or from one or other of the State Departments, together with the amount of the assistance thus granted in each case, separately, and for each of the last three years?
§ Mr. HORE-BELISHAWith the hon. Member's permission I will circulate the answer, which is necessarily a statement in tabular form, in the OFFICIAL REPORT.
§ Following is the answer:
1631| STATEMENT showing the Industries or Processes receiving financial aid or subsidy from the Exchequer and the approximate amounts so received in each of the financial years 1931–2, 1932–3 and 1933–4: | ||||
| Industry or Process. | Financial Year. | |||
| 1931–2. | 1932–3. | 1933–4. | ||
| Grants under Part I of the Development (Loan Guarantees and Grants) Act, 1929: | £ | £ | £ | |
| Railway Companies | … | 159,000 | 449,000 | 429,000 |
| Dock Companies | … | 500 | 500 | 500 |
| Canal Companies | … | 1,000 | 9,500 | 17,000 |
| Gas Companies | … | 41,000 | 78,000 | 44,500 |
| Water Companies | … | 10,000 | 18,500 | 12,500 |
| Electricity Companies | … | 6,000 | 13,500 | 29,500 |
| Light Horse Breeding | … | 25,000 | 10,500 | — |
| Mechanical Transport | … | 15,000 | 4,500 | 3,000 |
| Civil Aviation | … | 395,000 | 398,000 | 402,000 |
| Slate Quarry | … | — | 9,000 | 4,000 |
| Grants made by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research to Research Organisations of the following Industries: | ||||
| Automobile Engineering | … | 1,250 | 2,500 | 1,875 |
| Boot, Shoe and Allied Trades | … | 1,070 | 1,100 | 1,200 |
| Cast Iron | … | 3,960 | 3,000 | 3,000 |
| Cocoa, Chocolate, Sugar Confectionery and Jam Trades. | … | 2,330 | 1,400 | 1,270 |
| Cotton | … | 13,680 | 10,000 | 10,000 |
| Artificial Silk | … | 1,990 | 1,860 | 1,870 |
| Cutlery | … | 50 | 30 | — |
| Electrical and Allied Industries | … | 15,620 | 11,000 | 7,300 |
| Flour Milling | … | 1,620 | 1,500 | 1,000 |
| Food Manufacture | … | 2,170 | 475 | 490 |
| Laundering | … | 1,830 | 1,680 | 1,720 |
| Leather Manufacture | … | 2,510 | 2,200 | 1,620 |
| Linen | … | 3,060 | 1,550 | 800 |
| Non-Ferrous Metals | … | 8,750 | 5,760 | 5,360 |
| Paint, Colour and Varnish Manufacture | … | 4,200 | 2,200 | 1,200 |
| British Refractories | … | 2,490 | 1,200 | 1,000 |
| Rubber Manufacture | … | 1,530 | 1,900 | 1,100 |
| Scientific Instruments | … | 7,950 | 7,400 | 7,000 |
| Silk | … | 380 | 300 | — |
| Wool | … | 6,750 | 5,000 | 5,500 |
| Iron and Steel Manufacture | … | 4,030 | 6,150 | 4,200 |
| Colleries (Hydrogenation of Coal) | … | 340 | — | — |
| Beet Sugar | … | 2,135,000 | 2,356,000 | 3,350,000 (estimate) |
| Field Drainage | … | 25,000 | 11,000 | 4,000 |
| Agricultural Marketing Boards: | ||||
| Hops | … | — | 550* | — |
| Pigs | … | — | — | 8,370 |
| Milk | … | — | — | 22,250* |
| Scottish Boards | … | — | — | 1,330 |
| Loans to Co-operative Marketing Societies | … | 3,000 | — | — |
| Flax Development | … | 14,000 | 1,000 (net receipt) | 600 (net receipt) |
| * Since repaid. |