§ Mr. J. Morrisonasked the Minister of Food what is the price paid by British manufacturers of sweets for export for their glucose and sugar supplies as compared with the world price for these articles.
§ Mr. StracheyFor their glucose the British manufacturers pay £57 11s. 8d. a ton ex-duty for general exports and £40 a ton ex-duty at present (as a result of a favourable purchase from a soft currency area) for exports to dollar and similar markets. For sugar they pay the ex-refinery price of £38 13s. 4d. a ton ex-duty. World prices do not exist for these commodities but I am satisfied that exports to hard currency areas are not penalised by these prices, which contain no subsidy element.