§ Mrs. Winifred Ewingasked the Secretary of State for Scotland what is the equivalent Scottish figure for the weekly food bill of the average family, as compared with the overall United Kingdom figure of £3.46, published on 30th June by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.
§ Mr. StrangI have been asked to reply.
In Scotland the average expenditure per person during the first quarter of 1975 on food bought for consumption in the home is estimated to have been £3.36 per person per week, compared with £3.46 per person in Great Britain as a whole. The difference between the two figures is within the margin of sampling error and is thus not statistically significant.