§ 31. Mr. Hurdasked the Minister of Food how much barley and other coarse grains offered at sterling prices he has declined to buy in the past three months.
§ Mr. WebbIt is impossible to say. The same grain is sometimes offered simultaneously by different sellers and sometimes more than once by the same seller. I do not always, as a measure of elementary commercial prudence, accept the first offer.
§ Mr. HurdHow does it happen, if ordinary business shrewdness is used, that the right hon. Gentleman's Ministry failed to buy barley from Iraq last month at £32 10s. and bought this month at £35, the original barley having gone to Holland?
§ Mr. WebbIf the hon. Member would like details of that I would like it to be put down as a Question.
§ Mr. HarrisonCan my right hon. Friend say in what Government publication all these details of his Department's sales are published, so that we can all be aware of them?