§ 39. Mr. LOUGHasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food if he will say, with regard to the pledge given by him that if the price of milk was raised the increase would be made to operate so as to compensate the producer for the period in which he received the lower price, and seeing that only 1s. per gallon was paid from the 1st May to the 10th June as compared with a price now fixed of 1s. 4d., how the proposes to give effect to his undertaking?
§ Mr. CLYNESEffect has already been given to my undertaking. The intention was to raise the price of milk for the five summer months by an average of 3d. per gallon, but as this increase did not come into operation until 10th June, the actual rise in price from that date until 30th September has been fixed at 4d. per gallon, in order to compensate the producer for the period from 1st May till 9th June, when the price paid to him was 1s. per gallon.