§ 69. Major NALLasked the Food Controller why the percentage of home-killed mutton allocated during the four weeks ending 26th April, 1919, to Manchester and Salford was only 3.5 per cent., whilst that to the Metropolitan area was 10.2 per cent., Westmorland and Cumberland 18.8 per cent., and Yorkshire 7.8 per cent.?
The MINISTER of FOOD (Mr. Roberts)I am informed that the low percentage of home-killed mutton allocated to the Manchester and Salford district during the period in question, was due to a temporary shortage in the supplies of sheep to the markets drawn upon by these towns. I may add that if all the mutton consumed in Cumberland and Westmorland had been sent to Manchester and Salford it would have made no appreciable difference in the percentage allocated to the latter area.