§ 23. Lieut.-Colonel Liptonasked the Minister of Food whether he will provide more detailed and more frequent reports on the financial results of his Department's buying and selling of grain and other foodstuffs.
§ Major Lloyd GeorgeFull information on the financial results of my Department's trading activities is already given annually in published Trading Accounts. It would be impracticable to publish Trading Accounts more frequently.
§ Lieut.-Colonel LiptonIs the Minister aware that it makes the public very 1956 anxious when once a year we are told that the Minister wants another £127 million to make up trading deficits on various accounts? In view of the many millions of pounds he has apparently frittered away, will he produce half-yearly or quarterly statements?
§ Major Lloyd GeorgeIf there has been any anxiety on the part of the public, they must have got used to it after six years of Socialist administration.