§ Mr. J. Grimstonasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what acreage of forest was cut down and cleared in the British zone of Germany in the five years after the war; and how much timber was shipped to this country from Germany in the same period.
§ Mr. Ernest DaviesApproximately 533,000 acres of forest were cleared in the British zone of Germany in the five post-war years, 415,000 acres of which were cut by the Germans for their own use. British cutting operations accounted for some 99,000 acres, from which approximately one million cubic metres of timber were supplied for German use. Of the remainder, 10,600 acres were cut by Belgium and 8,400 by Holland. According to German statistics, exports of timber, in all forms, to the United Kingdom from Western Germany up to the end of 1949 amounted to 4.5 million cubic metres. Exports after 1949 were negligible.