§ 26. Mr. LIDDALLasked the Minister of Agriculture what steps, if any, he is taking to ensure the full benefit of the home market to the British potato grower in the months of July, August and September?
§ Major ELLIOTMy hon. Friend will no doubt have seen the announcement in the Press on Saturday last that an Order has been made under the Import Duties Act increasing from £1 to £2 per ton the duty on all foreign potatoes imported during the months of July and August. Every effort will be made to expedite the progress through its various stages of the scheme for the regulation of the marketing of potatoes in Great Britain which, as my hon. Friend will be aware, has been submitted by the industry to my right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Scotland, and myself, under the Agricultural Marketing Act, 1931.