§ Viscount LYMINGTONasked the Minister of Agriculture if he will in future make it a condition attaching to the payment of a subsidy to any sugar-beet factory that, should that factory go into liquidation, the payment in full of contract prices to growers must be the first charge on the factory's assets after the factory labour has been paid, in order to prevent a recurrence of losses to growers such as have taken place last season on the failure of the Eynsham factory?
§ Dr. ADDISONI have no power under the British Sugar (Subsidy) Act of 1925 to attach such a condition to the payment of the subsidy, and I am advised that it would not be possible under the existing bankruptcy laws to give beet growers a preferential status as compared with other trade creditors.