§ Mr. STANLEY JOHNSONasked the Food Controller whether, in view of the fact that he has refused to control the price of fruit this season, he will continue to enforce control of jam at last season's ' prices so as to protect those firms who loyally conform to his wish that they shall refuse to purchase fruit except at such prices as will enable them to manufacture jam to sell at, or at less than, the controlled price; and whether he is aware that certain jam manufacturers, despite his warnings to the trade, are still paying double the price for fruit which was paid last year?
Mr. ROBERTSIt is proposed to retain a schedule of maximum prices for this season's jams, and it is hoped that any revision of the present prices will be in a downward direction. In any case the price of jam will not be raised to meet the position of the manufacturers, who, despite official warnings, have paid unreasonably high prices for fruit.