§ Mr. R. Morganasked the Minister of Agriculture whether, in view of the Government's intention to assist world economic improvement at the conclusion of the war, he has considered the possibility of the present effort to increase production of uneconomic sugar-growing in the United Kingdom as being likely to present grave difficulties in the future; and whether he will review this policy, having regard to the ample scope for supplying the country's sugar requirements from Empire sources where sugar-production is a more economic proposition?
§ Sir R. Dorman-SmithI do not think that the present effort to increase the production of home-grown sugar is likely to create difficulties for the future. Our1572W pre-war consumption of sugar was about 2,080,000 tons, of which 1,130,000 tons were supplied from Empire sources and about 400,000 tons were produced at home. The remainder came from foreign sources.