§ Mr. H. HOPEasked the Minister of Food whether his department has recently 2044W bought and imported potatoes from Denmark; whether the recent importations from Copenhagen were carried through by private business firms; whether the controlled price of £12 15s. per ton to producers for ware potatoes, beginning on the 15th instant, is a flat-rate price applicable alike to finest marshland King Edwards and Dunbar Red Soils and to the common black-land fen potatoes?
§ Mr. McCURDYThe answer to the first part of the question is in the negative; to the second, in the affirmative. The price referred to in the third part of the question is a maximum price only, and there is no reason to assume that common black-land fen potatoes will realise this figure. It is not thought to be practicable to fix different maximum prices for different grades of potatoes.