§ Mr. E. L. Mallalieuasked the Minister of Agriculture why he agreed to the absence, in the recent agreement as to meat supply from Eire, of any provision for an agreed percentage to come to the United Kingdom in the form of store cattle.
§ Sir T. DugdaleExperience during the past four years has shown that the arrangements under which the Ministry of Food pay equivalent prices for Irish store cattle fattened in the United Kingdom and for Irish fat cattle and meat ensure that an adequate supply of store cattle is available to United Kingdom farmers. Demand for Irish store cattle varies from year to year, and it was considered unnecessary to repeat in the new Annex to the 1948 Trade Agreement an expression of intent about the proportion of cattle exported to this country as stores.