British Sugar Corporation

HC Deb 07 November 1950 vol 480 c51W

120. Mr. William Elwyn Jones

asked the Minister of Food what was the aggregate amount paid out of public funds to the British Sugar Corporation since 1935.

Mr. Webb

The total amount paid out of public funds to the British Sugar Corporation from its inception in June, 1936, up to 31st March, 1950. is about £50 million.