§ MR. MILDMAY (Devon, Totnes)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for War whether an arrangement has been made whereby Her Majesty's Forces quartered in Plymouth and elsewhere are supplied with foreign frozen meat; and whether, if that be so, he will consider the advisability of encouraging the agricultural industry at home, and putting a stop to a practice so detrimental to that industry?
§ MR. CAMPBELL-BANNERMANA certain quantity of refrigerated beef and, in a smaller proportion, frozen mutton is supplied to the troops during the winter months. But whenever duo regard to economy admits of it, there is always a desire to give the preference to home-grown meat of good quality.
§ MR. MILDMAYHas the practice been extended lately?
§ MR. CAMPBELL-BANNERMANI do not think so at all.