§ 5 and 6. Mr. Wootton-Daviesasked the President of the Board of Trade (1) if he has any up-to-date estimate as to the accessible salt deposits in this country and by whom they are owned or controlled;
(2) whether he is aware that recent advances in industrial chemistry make it possible to produce a large range of products based on coal, salt, lime and nitrogen; and whether, in these circumstances, he will take steps to ascertain what are the existing salt deposits in this country and to what extent they can be made freely available to new industries wishing to use these chemical processes.
§ Mr. DaltonThe reserves of salt in this country are very large, and I am not aware of any difficulty experienced by industries in obtaining supplies. If my hon. Friend will send me details of any such cases, I shall be glad to look into, them. Full information about the deposits in this country is given in Memoir No. XVIII of the Geological Survey entitled "Rock-Salt and Brine."