HC Deb 21 January 1947 vol 432 c33
57. Mr. Hurd

asked the Chancellor at the Exchequer how much Britain paid in 1946 for the 97,500,000 lbs. of dried eggs and 16,000,000 lbs. of frozen eggs purchased in the U.S.A.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Dalton)

£31 million for dried eggs, and £1¼ million for frozen eggs.

Mr. Hurd

Has the Chancellor worked out for himself the economy of importing feeding stuffs for poultry farms rather than to continuing to import dried eggs?

Mr. Dalton

I would be delighted if we could import more feeding stuffs and less dollar commodities of the kind mentioned But it is not so easy as that.