§ Mr. McEnteeasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what is the present sugar output and export of each of the British Colonies; what proportion of the imported sugar requirements of Great Britain is now supplied by the Colonies; and whether lie proposes to take any steps to ensure the increase of this proportion during the next three years?
§ Mr. Ormsby-GoreExact figures for output in each Colony for 1936 are not yet available. At present about 3o per cent. of the sugar requirements of the United Kingdom comes from the Colonial Empire. If any obligations are entered into as part of an international sugar agreement it is proposed to ensure that the Colonies shall be able at least to maintain that proportion.
Exports of sugar from the Colonial Empire, 1936. Colony, etc. Quantity in Tons. Mauritius 274,783 Fiji 140,864 Barbados* 119,685 British Guiana 176,500 Jamaica 77,733 Leeward Islands (Antigua and St. Kitts Nevis) 46,000 Trinidad and Tobago 142,671 St. Lucia 7,706 St. Vincent 500 East Africa† (Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika Territory) 14,557 Total 1,000,999 * Includes equivalent of fancy molasses. †Includes jaggery and refined sugar.