§ Mr. R. Morganasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food whether he is aware that the new regulations governing the sale of eggs at uniform maximum prices, confined to the bigger packing stations only, are solely in favour of the large wholesalers; and whether he will reconsider the elimination of the small producer when he is as efficient as the larger?
Major Lloyd GeorgeThe Home Produced Eggs Scheme is designed to attract eggs into packing stations where supplies can be packed in sufficiently large units for the Ministry to control and direct eggs to centres of consumption at which the shortage of supplies is most acute. A producer whose supplies are insufficient to qualify him to obtain a licence as a packer can sell his supplies to a packing station at the maximum prices provided for such sales under the Eggs (Maximum Prices) Order.