§ 82. Mr. MURROUGH WILSONasked the Financial Secretary to the War Office what has been the average price of foreign meat supplied to the Army during the last quarter; and what was the average price tendered for the same period for home-killed meat?
§ Mr. GWYNNEIt is the invariable practice of the Department to treat contract prices as strictly confidential, and I regret that in these circumstances I am not in a position to state the actual average prices. I may say, however, that the prices tendered for fresh meat for the period 1st July to 31st December, 1923, showed generally an excess of 100 per cent. or more over those for frozen meat, though for a few individual stations the excess was somewhat less. No effective comparison is practicable for the period before 1st July, for which tenders for fresh meat were received only in a few isolated cases.