§ Major Procterasked the Lord President of the Council whether the British delegation to the International Sugar Conference has consented to any agreement whereby this country will be pledged to continue to import sugar from Cuba, Peru, Brazil, or Poland; and, if so, whether any arrangement has been made by which these countries will, in return for such benefit, undertake to import a larger proportion of British-manufactured goods, particularly cotton textiles?
§ Mr. R. MacDonaldThe answer to the first part of the question is in the negative; the answer to the second part of the question, accordingly, does not arise.
§ Mr. Donnerasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he is aware that the East African sugar industry has only recently begun to recuperate from the effects of abnormal attacks by locusts and drought; and whether he can give an assurance that nothing will be done to delay this recovery by any decision arising from the International Sugar Conference whereby the expansion of sugar production in 1269W Uganda and an increase in the East African sugar exports beyond the present level will be limited?
§ Mr. Ormsby-GoreI would refer the hon. Member to the reply given yesterday to other questions regarding the Uganda sugar industry.