§ Viscount SANDONasked the Secretary to the Overseas Trade Department what are the average annual purchases per Report since their first issue and in the most recent year of their publication of the Departmental Reports on trade conditions in the five categories of European countries, Latin American States, the Dominions and India, the Colonies, Protectorates, and Mandated Territories, and the world as a whole?
§ Mr. HACKINGThe existing series of annual Reports was instituted in 1920. The following table gives the information desired. It should be borne in mind that the list of countries reported on varies somewhat from year to year: