§ 34. Major HILLSasked the Minister of Agriculture whether, in view of the heavy supplies of home-grown potatoes at low prices and of the efforts now being made by the newly-constituted Potato Marketing Board to find a satisfactory market for these supplies, the Government will drastically reduce the imports of early potatoes, especially from Spain?
§ Mr. ELLIOTI am not at present in a position to add to my reply of 1st March to the hon. and gallant Member for Barkston Ash (Colonel Ropner), of which I am sending my right hon. and gallant Friend a copy.
§ Major HILLSIs the right hon. Gentleman aware that growers are seriously alarmed about the situation?
§ Mr. ELLIOTYes, Sir, but, as my right hon. and gallant Friend knows, in the first three months the imports of early potatoes are not very large.
§ Mr. RHYS DAVIESIs the right hon. Gentleman aware that early potatoes are produced in Spain at least two months earlier than they can be in this country?