§ Mr. LEWIS HASLAMasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he can state the percentage of the value of cotton in the last-recorded year, exported to the United Kingdom and to countries neutral in the present War, to the value of the total crop exported from Egypt in that year?
Mr. RUNCIMANThe total value of the cotton exported from Egypt in 1913 was £26,178,000, of which £11,283,000, or 43 per cent., represented exports to the United Kingdom, and £5,231,000, or 20 per cent., exports to countries neutral in the present War.