HC Deb 17 June 1963 vol 679 c4W
Mr. Brewis

asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what were the amounts of ware potato stocks in the hand of merchants and on the farms at the nearest convenient date.

Mr. Scott-Hopkins

The Potato Marketing Board's last stock census was taken at the end of March, 1963, when they estimated that 725,000 tons of main-crop potatoes remained from the 1962 crop.