§ 48. Mr. MALLALIEUasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer the amount of loans guaranteed under the Trade Facilities Acts for companies engaged in the business of sugar other than homegrown beet-sugar; the amount outstanding; and the extent to which the Consolidated Fund has been drawn upon in respect of them?
Mr. CHAMBERLAINThe answers to the first and second parts of the question are £205,000 and £108,000 respectively. The Consolidated Fund has not been drawn upon.
§ Mr. MALLALIEUIs the right hon. Gentleman aware that the favoured recipients of these loans obtain their machinery and plant from precisely the same Glasgow firm which supplies the Anglo-Scottish Beet Sugar Corporation?
§ 49. Mr. MALLALIEUasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer the amount of loans guaranteed under the Trade Facilities Acts for companies engaged in selling taximeter-cabs to owner-drivers on the hire-purchase system; the amount outstanding; and the extent to which the Consolidated Fund has been drawn upon in respect of them?
Mr. CHAMBERLAINThe answer to the first part of the question is £350,000. No sum is outstanding, nor has the Consolidated Fund been drawn upon.
§ Mr. MALLALIEUDo not Lord Weir and Lord Invernairn hunt together rather too often when it is a question of spending public money?