HC Deb 17 December 1946 vol 431 c360W
127. Mr. Hector Hughes

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will grant export licences to enable Messrs. R. G. Garvie and Sons, of Aberdeen, to fulfil orders to export threshing machines, winnowers, grain sowers and manure distributors to Eire, Europe and the U.S.A., or state why this cannot be done: and how far they can go in accepting such orders on a firm basis.

Mr. Westwood

If Messrs. R. G. Garvie and Sons, of Aberdeen, will supply the Department of Agriculture for Scotland with details of the orders to export threshing machines, winnowers, grain sowers and manure distributors to Eire, Europe and U.S.A. which they wish to fulfil, I shall see that consideration is given to the proportion of their manufacturing output that could be exported without serious detriment to essential home requirements.