§ 27. Mr. LIDDALLasked the Minister of Agriculture if he is now in a position to announce the Government's policy in regard to the milk industry?
§ Major ELLIOTThe Government's policy in regard to the milk industry is to encourage organisation and other progressive movements within the industry and to take such steps as are practicable to facilitate them by bringing about a sounder situation on the market for milk products as a whole. The Government, accordingly, welcomed the recent submission of a marketing scheme on the lines of that prepared by the Milk Reorganisation Commission. As I have already informed my hon. Friend the Member for the City of Chester (Sir C. Cayzer), the milk products situation as a whole continues to receive the Government's consideration and I am unable at present to make a statement.
§ Mr. HERBERT WILLIAMSDoes the scheme cover condensed skimmed milk?
§ Major ELLIOTThe scheme itself is for the reorganisation of the liquid milk 497 market, but it obviously depends for its success, to some extent, on the steps taken to control the processed milk products.