§ 61 and 62. Mr. Irvingasked the Minister of Food (1) why he has permitted the Milk Marketing Board to establish a new processing dairy for producer-retailers at Langley Bridge, County Durham, when existing facilities for pasteurising and bottling this milk are adequate; and why the dairy is to have a potential capacity of 4,000 gallons per hour when it is estimated that the total output of producer-retailer milk cannot exceed 1,000 gallons per day;
(2) why he has permitted the Milk Marketing Board to establish a creamery at Langley Bridge, County Durham, with a capacity of 8,000 or 9,000 gallons per day, in view of the fact that the area is not a milk-producing area, so that there are not available supplies for which the new depot could act as a collecting centre.
§ Dr. SummerskillThe new dairy at Langley Bridge was established by the Milk Marketing Board, at the request of the producer-retailers in the area, to provide facilities for the heat-treatment and bottling of milk in anticipation of the areas being scheduled under Defence Regulation 55G. All milk retailers (including producer-retailers) are entitled to make such arrangements as they desire for processing the milk they sell. The capacity of the dairy was determined by the Milk Marketing Board.