HC Deb 18 March 1946 vol 420 c296W
119. Wing-Commander Hulbert

asked the President of the Board of Trade the number of looms which his Department have given permission to export during the next 12 months.

Sir S. Cripps

Licences for the supply of textile machinery to a specified value are issued to individual manufacturers for six monthly periods from the time the particular manufacturer is ready to start a new production programme. It is not possible therefore to state the number of looms represented by these licences for a given period ahead, but deliveries of weaving machinery for export in the last quarter of 1945 were £125,000 in value as compared with deliveries to the home market of £298,000 in value.