Sugar

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Food Supplies – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 26 April 1948.

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Photo of Dr Edith Summerskill Dr Edith Summerskill , Fulham West 12:00, 26 April 1948

I cannot give the hon. Gentleman figures of the stocks of this country, but I think he has wrongly interpreted the report. He must realise—I have said it in the House before—that we purchase sugar for South Africa for the purpose of refining it. We are paid for that business and we find it highly profitable.