§ Rear-Admiral BEAMISHasked the Minister of Agriculture if he will provide the latest available particulars as to the importation of potatoes during a year, with special reference to the quantities of new potatoes imported during such time as home-grown new potatoes are not available in appreciable quantities?
Mr. GUINNESSThe total quantity of potatoes imported into Great Britain and Northern Ireland during the 12 months ending June, 1927, was 319,000 tons. The trade returns do not distinguish between old and new potatoes but, judging from the countries of origin of the imported supplies, the quantity of new potatoes imported in the six months January to June, 1927, was, approximately, 167,000 tons.