HC Deb 29 January 1918 vol 101 cc1439-40W
Colonel HERBERT

asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food whether he is aware that, owing to prices of feeding-stuffs for cattle being fixed and to the fact that the Government has not taken over the available stocks as they have done in other cases where prices are controlled, no imported feeding-stuffs are purchasable by farmers and that the home supply is completely insufficient; and whether any action is to be taken in connection therewith?

Mr. CLYNES

By virtue of the Cattle Feeding-stuffs (Requisition) Order, 1918, dated the 21st January, 1918, the Food Controller has taken possession of all cattle feeding-stuffs in or in transit to the United Kingdom after that date. The available stocks of imported feeding-stuffs will be dealt with immediately under this Order.

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