HC Deb 06 December 1911 vol 32 c1554W
Mr. GODFREY COLLINS

asked the President of the Board of the Board of Trade if he can state the total production of beet sugar and cane sugar respectively, and the total production of both beet and cane sugar for the last twenty years; and the average price of 88 per cent. beet sugar f.o.b. Hamburg for the last twenty years?

Mr. BUXTON

The following statement shows the total world's production of beet sugar and (so far as it can be given) of cane sugar in each of the years 1891 to 1911, and the average of the market quotations of 88 per cent. beet sugar f.o.b. Hamburg in each year:—