HC Deb 17 December 1934 vol 296 c802
12. Mr. LAWSON

asked the Minister of Agriculture the total cost to the consumer up to the present of the wheat quota?

Mr. ELLIOT

Having regard to the variety of uses to which flour is put and to the varying proportion which the cost of flour bears to the cost of the finished article, it is not practicable to determine the total cost to the ultimate consumer. The total sum collected up to 13th December, 1934, by way of quota payments from millers and importers of flour under the provisions of the Wheat Act, 1932, and orders thereunder is as follows:

£
1932–33 4,777,466
1933–34 7,180,765
1934–35 (up to 13th December) 2,163,404
Total £14,121,635
Mr. ANNESLEY SOMERVILLE

Will my right hon. Friend give the House the price of bread last month and the price in November, 1930?

Mr. SPEAKER

The hon. Member had better put that question on the Paper.