§ Colonel DAYasked the Minister of Health the total amount of meat purchased by the Metropolitan Asylums Board during the 12 months ended to the last convenient date; and what proportion of this total was home produce?
Mr. CHAMBERLAINTo obtain precise figures of actual purchases would entail considerable labour in the examination of the books of the 36 institutions under the management of the Board, but the estimated purchases for the year ended 30th June, 1926, were as follows:
Stones. Foreign meat … … 118,999 Colonial meat … … 45,664 English meat … … 7,916 172,572