§ 31. Dr. Dickson Mabonasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what are the up-to-date figures of the cost of providing an adequate diet for representative groups of the community in Scotland.
§ Dr. Dickson MabonIn view of the fact that the National Food Survey and the 1955 Report of the Department of Health for Scotland show appreciable differences between the standard of nutrition of the people in Scotland and the standard of nutrition of the people in England and Wales, ought there not to be social indices of the kind which the Nutrition Committee of the British Medical Association published in 1953?
Mr. AmoryI am sympathetic to the hon. Gentleman's views on this matter, but I really believe that the best service I can render is to do my best, as I am doing now, to get the National Food Survey figures out quicker than they have been got out in the past. We are making steady progress, and I hope that the full report for 1955 will be out in a few weeks.