§ 67. Mr. SWANasked the Food Controller whether he will consider the advisability of putting into operation the 249 scheme, as recommended by the Select Committee on National Expenditure, which suggested that if the bread subsidy, was used for bread by bakers and housewives, an economy would be effected of approximately £29,000,000 this year, and the administering scheme would only cost £200,000?
§ Mr. BARKERThe Food Controller has no knowledge of any recommendation by the Select Committee on National Expenditure to the effect that £29,000,000 might be saved by restricting the use of subsidised flour to the manufacture of bread. The Food Controller is advised that an attempt to restrict the application of the bread subsidy to flour used for bread-making would involve the setting up of elaborate and costly machinery for the rationing of bread and flour and the impossibility of preventing serious leakage would considerably reduce the saving effected.