§ Sir B. PETOasked the Minister of Transport whether his attention has been called to the fact that during the month of January the imports of foreign broken road-stone into this country amounted to 16,097 tons, and that during the past four years nearly 1,000,000 tons of road-stone and 650,000 tons of setts and kerbing have been imported into this country at a cost of £2,750,000; whether he is aware that there are 2,000 men in the road-stone industry at present unemployed, and that British quarries are capable of supplying all the material required for the roads of the country; and if he will consider making it a condition of any grant from the Road Fund for the maintenance and repair of district as well as main roads that only British material should be used on them?
§ Colonel ASHLEYI would refer my hon. Friend to the answer I have given to-day to a similar question by my hon. and gallant Friend the Member for Basingstoke (Sir A. Holbrook), of which I am sending him a copy.