Viscountess ASTORasked the Minister of Agriculture whether, when making arrangements for the disposal of surplus milk, he will consider letting milk be sold below the statutory price to labourers' families in the villages where the milk is produced, in view of the fact that hitherto these families have been able to purchase their milk more cheaply than they now can?
§ Mr. ELLIOTSales of milk by a farmer to any of his employés are exempted from the operation of the Milk Marketing Scheme, and the Milk Marketing Board have also intimated that milk may be sold at the farmhouse door at a price below the prevailing retail price of the district. Suggestions such as that put forward by my Noble Friend will, I have no doubt, be fully considered by the board.