§ 17. Mr. Willeyasked the Minister of Food why the consumption of full price fresh milk for January, 1953, was 1,400,000 gallons less than for January, 1952, and two million gallons less than January, 1951, although the production 1810 of milk for January, 1953, was greater than in the corresponding months in 1952 and 1951.
§ Major Lloyd GeorgeThe change is too small to be assigned to any specific cause.
§ Mr. WilleyIs the Minister aware that most of us do not regard this change as small, and that what we now want from him is an assurance that there will be no further increase in the price of milk this year?
§ Major Lloyd GeorgeI am not at all sure that the price has much to do with it, because welfare milk and school milk, where the question of price does not arise, have fallen by about the same proportion.
§ Mr. WilleyWill the Minister look up the figures for school milk, when I think he will find that consumption increased last year as compared with the previous year, according to the figures published by the Labour Government?
§ Major Lloyd GeorgeIt is because I have looked at the figures that I gave them.