§ Mr. de ROTHSCHILDasked the Minister of Agriculture the total amount of subsidy paid to each of the beet-sugar factories in each of the past three seasons, 1927–28, 1928–29, and 1929–30?
§ Dr. ADDISONThe following statement shows the total amounts of subsidy paid on sugar and molasses produced at each of the beet-sugar factories in Great Britain in the manufacturing seasons 1927–28, 1928–29, and 1929–30.
ing small islands in the sea; and the total acreage of any of the individual catchment areas in the proposed Land Drainage Bill?
§ Dr. ADDISONI. The following statement gives the total area of land in Great Britain in 1929 as revised by the Ordnance Survey Department in September, 1929.
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Acres. England 32,034,017 Wales 5,098,878 Scotland 19,069,007 Total, Great Britain 56,201,902 II. Following are the acreages of certain of the catchment areas proposed in the Land Drainage Bill:
Acres. River Thames 2,462,434 River Great Ouse 2,048,944 River Trent 2,581,577 River Ouse (Yorkshire) 2,670,818 River Welland 386,741 River Witham 822,278 River Ancholme 152,384
§ Viscount ELMLEYasked the Prime Minister when the Second Reading of the Land Drainage (No. 2) Bill will take place?
§ The PRIME MINISTERTo-morrow, as the Noble Lord will have seen from the statement which I made on Business on Thursday last.