§ 37. Mrs. Mannasked the Minister of Food whether he is aware that ample supplies of fat pork, suitable for the manufacture of sausages, are available to butchers at a low price; and whether he will now reimpose price control on sausages to enable housewives to benefit 26 from these supplies at a lower cost than they are now paying.
§ Major Lloyd GeorgeI have no doubt that the reduced prices for pork as from 19th July will be reflected in lower pork sausage prices, and I see no reason for reimposing controls.
§ Mrs. MannIs the right hon. Gentleman aware that while pork is falling in price sausages are increasing in price? Is there any protection whatever for housewives who are paying 3s. 4d. a lb. for rusks?
§ Major Lloyd GeorgeI cannot believe that the hon. Lady would pay that much for rusks. I am sure she would not. In South Scotland, for example, the average price at present is between 2s. 6d. and 2s. 9d. a lb. and in London about 2s. 8d., the meat content being 75 per cent., as opposed to 2s. 7½d. for 65 per cent. under control.
§ Mrs. MannDoes the right hon. and gallant Gentleman realise that while butchers can get 2s. 9d. a lb. for sausages they see a glorious picnic before them in the prices they can get for butchers' meat when decontrol takes place?