HC Deb 08 February 1929 vol 224 c2094W
Colonel WOODCOCK

asked the President of the Board of Trade the total value of exports from this country to Malaya during the last four years, and the total value of imports to this country from Malaya for the same period.

Mr. H. WILLIAMS

The total declared value of merchandise imported into and exported from Great Britain and Northern Ireland registered as consigned from and to British Malaya during each of the years 1925 to 1928 was as follows: —

Leicester Square, he can state the reason why effect was not given to the request.

Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS

There must I think, be some misapprehension. It was not for the Commissioner to ask for deportation orders. His function in this matter was to supply me with information, and the information so supplied was as a rule part only of the material on which I had to form my judgment. In the circumstances I should prefer to add nothing to my statement of yesterday.