Lieut.-Colonel SANDEMAN ALLENasked the Minister of Agriculture what is the present equivalent ad valorem protection given to the British beet-sugar industry by subsidy and duty abatement; and how this percentage compares with that given when the subsidy scheme was first introduced and in 1928?
§ Sir J. GILMOURThe effective assistance to home-grown white sugar at the beginning of the subsidy period, during the 1928–29 manufacturing season, and at present, represents 98 per cent., 116 per cent., and 113 per cent., respectively, of the wholesale white sugar prices (ex-duty) ruling at those dates.