§ Lieut.-Colonel H0RLICKasked the Minister of Agriculture the total of the amount of subsidies paid to encourage the production of beet sugar; where new factories are being built; and what is the estimated production of home-grown sugar this year?
Mr. GUINNESSThe total gross amount of subsidy paid to date under the British Sugar (Subsidy) Act in respect of the output of home-grown beet sugar and molasses produced during the manufacturing seasons 1924–25 and 1925–26 is £1,607,240 13s. 3d. New factories are being built at Peterborough; Poppleton, near York; Felstead, Essex; and Cupar, Fifeshire. On the basis of factory estimates of the beet acreage sown, the production of sugar during the 1926–27 campaign will probably be between 130,000 and 140,000 tons.