§ Mr. ARBUTHNOTasked the President of the Board of Trade if he will give figures for the past three years showing the amount of raw cotton imported into Great Britain for transhipment to other countries?
Mr. BUXTONThe quantities of imported raw cotton recorded as re-exported from the United Kingdom in each of the years 1907–9 were as follows: 1907, 2,949,572 cwts.; 1908, 2,597,948 cwts.; 1909, 2,398,513 cwts.