§ 32. Mr. Turtonasked the Minister of Food if he will give details of the expenditure of £2,715,578 recorded in the Trade and Navigation Accounts as having been spent in imports of meat from the United States of America during the nine months ended 30th September, 1949.
§ Mr. StracheyAs the answer is a table of figures, I will, with permission, circulate it in the OFFICIAL REPORT.
§ Following is the statement:
§ Details of the expenditure of £2,715,578 recorded in the Trade and Navigation Accounts as having been spent in imports of meat from the United States of America during the nine months ended 30th September, 1949, are as follow:
Value in £ | |
Beef, chilled, other than fore and hind quarters | 20 |
Canned corned beef | 2 |
Other canned beef (excluding canned beef tongues) | 1,433,331 |
Bacon (other than canned bacon) | 24 |
Hams (other than canned hams | 111 |
Pork, chilled or frozen | 889,256 |
Canned bacon and ham | 484 |
Canned pork | 2 |
Beef and veal extracts and essences | 150 |
Canned poultry | 8 |
Other canned meat (not elsewhere specified in the import list) | 392,168 |
Poultry and meat pastes, poultry liver (except raw liver), whether mixed or not, sausages, tinned, canned, and meat pies) | 22 |
§ 33. Mr. Turtonasked the Minister of Food what was the quantity and value of feedingstuffs for animals listed in Class I, Group B, of the Trade and Navigation Accounts that were imported from the United States of America during the nine months ended 30th September, 1949.
§ Mr. StracheyAs the answer contains a number of figures I will, with permission, circulate it in the OFFICIAL REPORT.
§ Following is the statement:
§ Imports into the United Kingdom consigned from the United States of America in the nine months January to September, 1949:
TRADE AND NAVIGATION ACCOUNTS: CLASS I, GROUP B | ||
Quantity in tons | Value in £ | |
Soya bean cake and meal | 590 | 33,968 |
Dog foods | (insignificant) | 9 |
Seeds, feeding (other than Dari or durra, Dhol or pigeon pea, gram or chick pea, Millet and Canary) | (insignificant) | 24 |
Feedingstuffs for Animals unsweetened, not elsewhere specified in the Import List. | 112 | 6,111 |