§ 52. Dr. Littleasked the Minister of Food the amount of cereals now assigned to distillers for the production of alcoholic liquor; and what relation this bears to the amount given to the brewers and that used for the food of the people.
§ Colonel LlewellinThe percentages of utilisation during 1944–45 of all cereals for distilling, brewing and food are 0.9 per cent., 7.2 per cent. and 91.9 per cent., respectively.
§ Dr. LittleDoes not my right hon. and gallant Friend agree that a further assignment of cereals for foodstuffs would be a great advantage to the country?
§ Colonel LlewellinWhat it means is that 92 per cent. does go for food.
§ Colonel LlewellinIf I may do my hon. Friend's arithmetic for her, it is 8 per cent.