HC Deb 23 June 1930 vol 240 cc807-9W
Mr. de ROTHSCHILD

asked 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. ADDISON

The 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. ADDISON

I. The following statement gives the total area of land in Great Britain in 1929 as revised by the Ordnance Survey Department in September, 1929.

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 ELMLEY

asked the Prime Minister when the Second Reading of the Land Drainage (No. 2) Bill will take place?

The PRIME MINISTER

To-morrow, as the Noble Lord will have seen from the statement which I made on Business on Thursday last.