§ 25. Captain P. MACDONALDasked the Minister of Agriculture whether, with a view to allaying public anxiety with regard to the effect on retail meat prices of the recent restrictions imposed, he will consider the desirability of publishing weekly figures showing the course of prices for the chief categories of wholesale and retail meat?
§ Major ELLIOTWholesale prices of meat are published weekly by my Department in the Agricultural Market Report. The collection and publication of retail prices is undertaken by my right hon. Friend the Minister of Labour, and these figures are published monthly in the Ministry of Labour Gazette.
§ Captain MACDONALDIs it not a fact that the changes in the wholesale prices do not justify any great increase in retail prices?