§ 37. Mr. Benceasked the Minister of Food what steps he has taken, or contemplates, to enforce the regulation to display price lists of meat.
§ Major Lloyd GeorgeIn the normal course of their duties enforcement inspectors visit butchers' shops to see that, among other things, the provision in the Meat (Prices) Order, that the maximum retail prices of meat must be displayed in a conspicuous position, is being observed.
§ Mr. BenceIs the Minister aware of the practice which has grown up during and since the war of rolling meat up and boning it? Is he aware that housewives are buying joints of meat not knowing what cuts they are? They are not off the horns, off the hooves, or the head, but from some other part of the carcase and many pay a price in excess of the fixed prices. Will the right hon. and gallant Gentleman enforce the regulations to see that the price ticket is put on the cut of meat?
§ Major Lloyd GeorgeThat is not the Question the hon. Member asked. He asked me to enforce the regulation to display price lists of meat. The question he now raises is that of putting prices on each piece of meat and that is what I am considering at the moment.