§ Captain P. MACDONALDasked the President of the Board of Trade the stocks of copper in public warehouses in the United Kingdom as at the 30th December, 1929; has he any information that will show the extent to which the production of copper is under either British or foreign control; and will he give particulars?
§ Mr. W. GRAHAMThe stocks of copper in approved warehouses in the United Kingdom at 30th December, 1929, according to the statistics of the London Metal Exchange, amounted to 6,504 tons. I am not in a position to state the proportion of the world's prod fiction of copper which is under British control, but the proportion produced within the British Empire is only a small percentage of the total.