Mr. Baker Whiteasked the Minister of Food if he will announce by 1st November his policy regarding imports of foreign lettuce over the period 1st March to 31st May, 1947, so as to enable home growers to make their plans accordingly and in order to prevent a repetition of 43W what happened in the same period of 1946, when an uncontrolled inflow of Dutch lettuce flooded the home market at a time when the home-grown product was coming into full supply and resulted in serious losses to many British producers.
§ Mr. StracheyI hope to make an announcement before the end of the month.