§ 75. Captain WRIGHTasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food whether the county of Derbyshire is limited to its own area for its supply of home-produced meat; whether he is aware that the county has a large industrial population engaged in coal mining and the icon, steel, and textile industries; that the system of agriculture is mainly that of dairying, with littlemeat or corn production; and that the county formerly depended on the neighbouring counties of Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, and Lincolnshire for its meat supplies; and whether he can organise the various supplies of the province of which Derbyshire is a part as a whole, so that a fair share of the fresh meat supplies of the province may be allocated to Derbyshire?
§ Mr. CLYNESUnder the present scheme for the distribution of livestock Derbyshire is limited to its own livestock area for its supplies of home-produced meat but as this area includes the adjacent counties of Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire. Nottinghamshire, and Rutlandshire, the latter part of the question does not arise. I may, however, state that both the Derby butchers and the local food control committees express themselves satisfied with the arrangements made.