HC Deb 15 July 1942 vol 381 c1240W
Mr. Riley

asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies whether products of farms in Africa, where forced labour is employed, will have regulated prices; and whether the indigenous cultivator will have guaranteed prices for his export products?

Mr. Harold Macmillan

The only territory in Africa under the control of the Colonial Office in which any substantial amount of compulsory labour is employed on agricultural operations in Kenya, and the prices of nearly all important export products of that Colony are subject to Government regulation. As regards the second part of the Question, in Kenya the chief crop produced for export by the African population is maize and the price for this commodity has been guaranteed.