§ Mr. FREEMANasked the President of the Board of Trade whether he can state the total number of ponies imported each 1162W year into this country during the last 10 years; the several countries from which the ponies were sent and the total number sent each year from each country; the purposes for which the ponies were intended in this country; the approximate average cost per head each year of these ponies; and whether the average cost per head is lower than that of ponies bred in various parts of England and Wales?
§ Mr. W. R. SMITHThe classification of live animals in the trade statistics does not provide for the separate enumeration of ponies, which are included with horses. It is impossible, therefore, to give the information desired, but my hon. Friend may find of interest in this connection the detailed returns of the imports of horses into this country during the years 1924–28, which are given on pages 418–9 of Volume II of the Annual Statement of the Trade of the United Kingdom.