§ Colonel BURTONasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty whether he can state the total quantity of meat issued to the naval forces in the United Kingdom; the percentages of British, foreign and Colonial; and what would be the extra cost, if any, of issuing home-produced meat in lieu of imported?
Lord STANLEYThe total quantity of meat issued annually under normal conditions to naval forces in the United Kingdom is approximately 2,500 tons, of which about 30 tons of pork and five tons of beef and mutton are home-killed or home-produced. The remainder is frozen meat entirely of Dominion origin. The extra cost, excluding administrative charges arising from storage, handling396W and inspection, of supplying home-killed meat in lieu of imported meat would be approximately £57,000 a year.