HC Deb 14 December 1916 vol 88 c910W
Mr. G. LAMBERT

asked the President of the Board of Trade whether, in order to exhibit the necessity of curtailing food consumption and increasing food production in the United Kingdom, he will furnish a Return for each month or convenient period of the destruction of all mercantile ships, British, Allied, and neutral, by hostile submarines during the War?

Dr. MACNAMARA

My right hon. Friend has asked me to answer this question. I must refer my right hon. Friend to the reply given by the late First Lord to my hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham (North) on the 29th November.