HC Deb 14 February 1955 vol 537 cc27-8
46. Mr. Crouch

asked the hon. Member for Woolwich, West, as Chairman of the Kitchen Committee, what percentage of home-produced beef and veal, mutton and lamb, fresh pork, bacon and ham, are used by his Department; what percentage of each is of Empire origin; and what percentage is foreign.

Mr. Steward

Beef and veal, 95 per cent. home, 5 per cent. foreign; mutton and lamb, 100 per cent. home; fresh pork, 100 per cent. home; bacon and ham, 65 per cent. home, 35 per cent. foreign.

Mr. Crouch

While thanking my hon. Friend for that reply, may I ask him, in view of the large quantity of first-quality English pigmeat now available, why we cannot have 100 per cent. English bacon and ham supplied to hon. Members?

Mr. Steward

We buy a certain quantity of Danish tinned hams, as, at the moment, they are more reasonably priced.

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