HC Deb 20 May 1938 vol 336 cc731-2W
Mr. David Adams

asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he will give statistics as to the quantities and values of the following chemical compounds produced and consumed in the United Kingdom and also in other areas within the British Empire in the most recent year for which figures are available: salvarsan, bayer 205, tryparsamide, atebrin, plasmoquin, trypan-blue, and trypaflavin?

Mr. Cross

During 1935, the latest year for which the information is available, the output in the United Kingdom of salvarsan and neo-salvarsan and other organo-arsenic compounds of like medicinal application amounted to 7,900 lbs., of a selling value of £107,000. No other official information is available regarding the output or consumption of the specified substances in the United Kingdom or in other parts of the British Empire.

Mr. David Adams

asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he will give statistics as to the quantities and values of the following chemical compounds imported into the United Kingdom and also into other parts of the British Empire in the most recent year for which figures are available: salvarsan, bayer 205, tryparsamide, atebrin, plasmoquin, trypan-blue, and trypaflavin?

Mr. Cross

Imports of the commodities mentioned in the question are not separately recorded for the purpose of the published trade returns of the United Kingdom. Particulars in respect of salvarsan and neo-salvarsan and other organo-arsenic compounds of like medicinal application were, however, separately recorded up to the year 1933, in which year imports into the United Kingdom amounted to 69 lbs., valued at £3,296. I have no information as to imports of these commodities into other parts of the Empire.