HC Deb 15 June 1925 vol 185 c68W
Sir W. de FRECE

asked the Minister of Agriculture if the Regulation that 75 per cent. of all machinery in the sugar-beet factories must be British embraces the importation of second-hand steel stanchions from the Continent; and whether, if this be not the case, he will inquire if any sugar-beet concerns are now adopting this policy?

Mr. WOOD

It is difficult to lay down a hard-and-fast rule, but I should not ordinarily regard steel stanhcions as "plant and machinery for the manufacture of sugar" for the purpose of Section 1 (2) (b) of the British Sugar (Subsidy) Act, 1925. I have already put in hand the inquiry referred to in the second part of the question.