– in the House of Commons at on 4 March 1924.
Mr Lawrence Lumley
, Kingston upon Hull East
asked the President of the Board of Trade what proportion of the world's sugar crop he estimates to be grown outside the British Empire?
Mr. WEBB:
No official statistics are available; but those compiled by a New York firm, Messrs. Willett & Gray, show, for the year 1923–24, an estimated production of cane and beet sugar, in countries outside the British Empire, amounting to 14,867,127 tons, or 78.8 per cent. of the estimated world production.
