§ Mr. SITCHasked the President of the Board of Trade the approximate proportion of motor vehicles for purposes of touring and private pleasure generally now being manufactured by makers of such means of locomotion in the United Kingdom as compared with the building of vehicles for transport and commercial purposes; and whether His Majesty's Government has made any request to manufacturers to give preference to the latter, having regard to the insistent national requirements for such vehicles for industrial and business purposes generally?
§ Sir R. HORNEAs to the first part of the question, I regret that I have no information. The answer to the second part of the question is in the negative.