§ Sir C. BATHURSTasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food whether he realises that the willingness of cottagers in the West of England to join pig clubs and fill their styes with pigs depends upon their being allowed to retain the first pig produced from their cottage and garden refuse for consumption by themselves and their families; and whether, in order to stimulate productive effort, particularly in mining areas, and thus reduce the drain on the common stock of meat, he can now say that such retention will be permitted?
§ Mr. CLYNESThe Food Controller fully realises the importance of giving every encouragement to the self-suppliers of 1191W pigs, whether acting individually or collectively, and he is prepared to adopt the suggestion of Lord Somerleyton's Committee that members of a group or club or association should be treated as self-suppliers. Lord Rhondda has also decided to go beyond the recommendations of the Committee and to allow the first pig killed for the consumption of the self-supplier or his dependants to be consumed free altogether of any Rationing Order. The consumption of such food may extend over a period of twelvemonths. The recommendations embodied in Lord Somerleyton's Committee's Report as to home-fed pigs beyond the first pig killed in any year will probably be adopted, but no actual decision as to this and the other points recommended by that Committee has yet been decided upon.