§ Mr. Joplingasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will list each sugar beet factory in the United Kingdom, showing the tonnage which each one is capable of shinning in a season, and the tonnage grown in the area served by each factory.
§ Mr. HoyThe following information relating to the 1968 crop has been provided by the British Sugar Corporation Limited:
Factory Daily slicing capacity (tons) Beet grown in factory area (tons) Allscott 2,740 277,095 Bardney 4,138 433,686 Brigg 2,553 317,394 Bury St. Edmunds 5,858 759,893 Cantley 4,772 667,668 Cupar 1,966 108,015 Ely 4,321 510,181 Felsted 2,870 375,667 Ipswich 4,026 481,836 Kidderminster 2,809 205,833 King's Lynn 3,930 526,854 Newark 1,848 246,539 Nottingham 2,026 167,313 Peterborough 4,679 562,909 Selby 1,632 224,036 Spalding 4,436 445,727 Wissington 2,954 366,763 York 2,881 338,699 The beet grown in any particular factory area is not necessarily all processed by that factory; some of it may be processed in other factories in order to utilise the available slicing capacity most efficiently.