§ Lord APSLEYasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury the difference in the contract prices between foreign meat supplied to the Army, Navy and Air Force, respectively, and the similar prices which would have to be paid were the contracts confined to home-raised meat; and what, in each case, would be the aggregate difference in price between the supply of the foreign article on the one hand and the supply of the home article on the other?
§ Major ELLIOTI am informed that the amount of foreign meat supplied to the Army, Navy and Air Force is less than 1 per cent. and that the balance is entirely of Dominion origin. If home-killed meat, which is not necessarily the same as home-raised meat, were substituted the cost would be approximately doubled. The extra expenditure would amount to about £600,000 per annum, of which the Army, Navy and Air Force shares would be £417,000, £100,000 and £83,000, respectively.