Written Answers
Trade And Commerce
Boots And Shoes
asked the President of the Board of Trade the total exports of boots and shoes for the last five years, and the imports of boots and shoes to this country from the various countries for the last five years?
The principal figures for each of the years 1926 to 1928 are published in the monthly "Accounts relating to Trade and Navigation of the United Kingdom" for December last, particulars for imports being shown on pages 65, 66 and 75, and for domestic exports on pages 158, 159 and 171. More detailed particulars for 1927 and earlier years will be found in the "Annual Statement of the Trade of the United Kingdom" for 1927. Volume II. contains, on pages 294 to 296 and page 371, figures relating to the total imports of boots and shoes, while statistics of domestic exports are recorded on pages 333 to 335 and pages 444 and 445 of Volume III.
Petkoleum
asked the President of the Board of Trade the latest ascertained figures relating to imports of mineral oils and products such as petrol into the United Kingdom, each separated out into their various grades and qualities in gallons per annum with import values, and a comparative table showing the relative quantities and values of similar commodities produced in this country.
The quantities and values of the total imports of crude
| Year. | Total imports consigned from British Malaya to the United Kingdom. | Exports consigued from the United Kingdom to British Malaya. | |||
| Produce and Manufactures of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. | Imported merchandise. | ||||
| £ | £ | £ | |||
| 1925 | … | … | 23,506,187 | 13,564,955 | 327,160 |
| 1926 | … | … | 26,256,755 | 14,115,922 | 453.760 |
| 1927 | … | … | 21,666,465 | 14,762,956 | 425,337 |
| 1928 (a) | … | … | 12,610,174 | 15,092,002 | 382,144 |
| (a) Provisional figures. | |||||
Night Clubs (Police Supervision)
asked the Home Secretary in how many cases were aliens concerned in the management of night clubs and for how many of them did Sir William Horwood, the late Commissioner of Police, ask for deportation orders after conviction, and in how many cases were his requests complied with; and whether, seeing that the late Commissioner asked for Ribuffi's deportation after conviction for irregularities at Victor's Club in
petroleum and the virions kinds of refined petroleum during each of the three years 1926 to 1928 are recorded on pages 46 and 68–9 of the "Accounts relating to Trade and Navigation of the United Kingdom" for December last. As regards a comparison between the imports of such oils and production in this country, I would refer my hon. Friend to an article on "Mineral Oil Refining in Great Britain" in the "Board of Trade Journal" of April 7th, 1927, and to the preliminary report on the Census of Production of 1924 of the Oil and Tallow Trades in Great Britain in the Board of Trade Journal" of January 5th, 1928.
British Malaya
asked the President of the Board of Trade the total value of exports from this country to Malaya during the last four years, and the total value of imports to this country from Malaya for the same period.
The total declared value of merchandise imported into and exported from Great Britain and Northern Ireland registered as consigned from and to British Malaya during each of the years 1925 to 1928 was as follows: —Leicester Square, he can state the reason why effect was not given to the request.
There must I think, be some misapprehension. It was not for the Commissioner to ask for deportation orders. His function in this matter was to supply me with information, and the information so supplied was as a rule part only of the material on which I had to form my judgment. In the circumstances I should prefer to add nothing to my statement of yesterday.