§ Major DESPENCER - ROBERTSONasked the President of the Board of Trade whether he will approach the British official directors of the Suez Canal Company with a view to ascertaining, month by month for the next year, the probable requirements of materials for the Suez Canal, so that they may assist the export trade by placing particulars of the requirements before local chambers of commerce when visiting suitable industrial areas in Britain?
§ Mr. GILLETTI would refer the hon. and gallant Member to the reply which I have given to-day to similar questions by the hon. and gallant Members for Hertford (Rear-Admiral Sueter) and Kings-ton-upon-Hull, North-West (Sir A. Lambert Ward).