Dr. Jegerasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies when it is proposed to allocate grants, equivalent to accumulated profits on the West African Produce Control Board's cocoa operations, to provide finance for marketing and research as outlined in the White Paper on Cocoa Control in West Africa, paragraphs 40 and 41.
§ Mr. George HallParliament has already voted a sum equivalent to the profits up to the end of the 1942–43 season arising from sales of cocoa by the West African Produce ControlBoard to be allocated to the Governments of the Gold Coast and Nigeria to finance the proposed research and marketing organisations, and these moneys will be transferred to the Governments before the end of the current financial year. The House will in due course be asked to vote a sum equivalent to the profits made in subsequent years to be allocated to the Gold Coast and Nigerian Government to be devoted to purposes designed to be of benefit to West African producers as undertaken by His Majesty's 2629W Government in the terms referred to in paragraph 1 of the Report on Cocoa Control in West Africa, 1939–1943 (Cmd. 6554 of 1944).