§ Mr. SMEDLEY CROOKEasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if, in view of the fact that many large contracts are being secured by the nation's competitors, he will consider the advisability of allowing a reduced rate of Income Tax, or some similar method, to firms engaged in shipbuilding and ether national trades, which, without involving a direct subsidy, would give them some chance of competing and thus find work for the skilled unemployed?
§ Mr. CHURCHILLI am in full sympathy with the hon. Member's object, but I cannot feel that his method would be capable of application without raising
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Mr. SAMUELThe quantity of white arsenic and other arsenic compounds imported into Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and registered as consigned from Japan, amounted to 51 tons in December, 1924; 104 tons in January, 1925; and 81 tons in February, 1925. There were no imports of metallic arsenic during the months in question.