§ MR. MAURICE HEALYI beg to ask the Financial Secretary to the War Office whether the limitations on the amount of frozen meat permissible to be supplied by Army contractors, was designed with the object of securing that a reasonable proportion of the meat supplied should be home-grown; and, whether, in view of the fact that under present conditions the whole of the meat supplied may be foreign grown, the form of tender and contract will be altered so as to secure the supply of a reasonable proportion of home-grown meat?
§ THE FINANCIAL SECRETARY TO THE WAR OFFICEThe limitation on the amount of refrigerated beef and frozen mutton supplied to the troops, was made in order that the soldier should receive a certain amount of fresh meat. The only way of securing that any of the fresh meat should be of home origin, would be to slaughter the animals in military abattoirs, which do not now exist except at two or three stations.