§ Mr. DUNCAN MILLARasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food if he will state the number of bushels of malt and also the quantity of rice and maize and of sugar and its equivalents, in hundredweights, used for brewing during the calendar year 1917?
§ Mr. CLYNESThe quantities used during the year ended 30th September, 1917, were as follows:
Malt. Rice. Maize. Sugar and its equivalents. Bushels. Cwts. Cwts. Cwts. 28,620,800 61,200 6,200 1,613,700 The figures for the calendar year 1917 are not available.
§ Mr. MILLARasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food if he will state (1) the number of standard barrels of beer brewed during the quarter 1st October to 31st December, 1917; and (2) the number of standard barrels of beer brewed for consumption during the calendar year 1917?
§ Mr. CLYNESThe number of standard barrels of beer brewed during the quarter 1st October to 31st December, 1917, was 3,647,700. The number of standard barrels of beer brewed for consumption in the United Kingdom during the calendar year 1917 was 16,133,800.