§ Mr. Sorensenasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food whether he is aware that mental hospitals and other institutions, who bake their own bread, do not receive the subsidy granted to private bakers; and whether he will grant the subsidy in these cases, or make an equivalent arrangement by which such mental hospitals and public institutions do not suffer this disadvantage?
Major Lloyd GeorgeAll flour is heavily subsidised and is consequently being sold at extremely low wholesale and retail prices. The price of bread on sale to the public is now controlled by Order, however, and an additional subsidy is being paid to bakers to enable them to conform to the new prices and to meet their costs of production and delivery. This additional subsidy is not of course payable to institutions which bake bread for their own consumption.