§ Mr. HOLDSWORTHasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer the amount of the benefit received by each separate industry as a result of direct and indirect grants from the Exchequer, relief from taxation, or in any other way, due to Government action, during the year 1934 or during 12 months from the most recent convenient date?
Mr. CHAMBERLAIN,pursuant to his reply [OFFICIAL REPOET, 14th February, 1935; col. 2075, Vol. 297], supplied the following statement:
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STATEMENT OP INDUSTRIES OR PROCESSES RECEIVING FINANCIAL AID OR SUBSIDY FROM THE EXCHEQUER IN THE CURRENT FINANCIAL YEAR. Industry or Process. Amount (estimated). £ Grants under Part I of the Development (Loan, Guarantees and Grants) Act, 1929: Railway Companies 490,500 Dock Companies 500 Canal Companies 17,500 Gas Companies 33,000 Water Companies 26,000 Electricity Companies 62,000 Light Horse Breeding 5,000 Mechanical Transport 1,100 Civil Aviation 432,000 Slate Quarries 2,000 1st January, 1934, to Industry or Process. 31st December, 1934. £ Grants made by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research to Research Associations of the following industries (calendar year 1934); Automobile Engineering 1,87,5 Boot, Shoe and Allied Trade 1,200 Cast Iron 3,550 Cocoa, Chocolate, Sugar Confectionery and Jam Trades 1,270 Cotton 11,000 Artificial Silk 887 Electrical and Allied Industries 5,877 Food Manufacture 570 Laundering 1,800 Leather Manufacture 1,621 Linen 1,622 Non-Ferrous Metals 7,774 Paint, Colour and Varnish Manufacture 2,200 British Refractories 1,848 Rubber Manufacture 3,103 Scientific Instruments 7,002 Wool 5,750 Iron and Steel 8,150
1st January, 1934, to Industry or Process. 31st December, 1934. £ Beet Sugar Subsidy 4,450,000 Cattle Subsidy (Payments to Producers) 2,100,000 Milk 1,444,725 Herrings (exeluding cost to the Exchequer under the Herring Industry Bill) 31,950 Field Drainage (Scotland) 6,700 Agricultural Marketing Boards: Bacon (England) 144,000 Scottish Boards 17,000 Western Highlands and Islands Transport Services 31,000 Cunard White Star 2,011,000 This table does not distinguish between grants and loans: several of the items shown, e.g., advances to Cunard White Star, are repayable.
The English advances and £16,000 of the Scottish advances to Agricultural Marketing Boards will be repaid by the end of the financial year.