Captain BENNasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether any of the articles protected under Part I of the Safeguarding of Industries Act are articles not manufactured in the British Empire; and, if so, what preparations are being made to manufacture such articles?
§ Mr. BALDWINI have been asked to answer this question. Some of the articles chargeable with duty under Part I of the Safeguarding of Industries Act were not being manufactured in the British Empire, so far as I am aware, at the time of the passage of the Act. The object of that Part of the Act is, however, to encourage the development of the industries to which it relates, and the extension of their range of production, and I am informed that a number of manufacturers are already taking steps in the direction indicated.