8. Captain CROOKSHANKasked the President of the Board of Trade if he will invite the Food Council to consider whether the compulsory wrapping of bread would have any effect in the ultimate cost, to the consumer, of bread and, if so, what, and whether its universal introduction might, in practice, result in the abolition of night baking?
§ Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTERThe Night Baking Committee of the Royal Commission on Food Prices reported last April that if the wrapping of bread became 1125 universal, the cost must ultimately be reflected in the price of the loaf, but I am unable to give an estimate of the increase in price, or to anticipate what, if any, effect it might have on night baking.