asked the President of the Board of Trade if he can state the number of tons of Persian dates imported into this country during 1922?

The imports of dates into the United Kingdom registered in the year 1922 as consigned from Persia amounted to 1,069 tons. During the same year -17,637 tons of dates were registered as consigned from Mesopotamia, and it is not known to what extent, if any, Persian dates may have been included in that quantity.