§ 23. Mrs. Mannasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the cash value of the milk subsidy for families of 1366 four or more children, including welfare and school milk.
§ Mrs. MannIn the 1954 Food Survey the figure was 14s. 9d. per week; it is now 8s. per week—and the 1954 Report is not the latest. How far below 8s. will the figure fall, and does the Minister think that in view of those figures there is justification for increasing the school meal charges?
Mr. AmoryThe figure has dropped, but I have indicated ways in which families with a substantial number of children receive special help. The general reductions in subsidies, which account, in the main, for the drop in the figure to which the hon. Lady referred, were made because the Government felt that it was impossible to justify subsidies of this kind for everyone in the country, regardless of their circumstances.