§ Rear-Admiral Beamishasked the Minister of Agriculture whether, in order to avoid a repetition of the straits to which our people were reduced for want of adequate food supplies in the late War, a comprehensive policy for greatly increasing home-grown food can be promulgated?
§ Mr. RamsbothamI have been asked to reply. I would refer my hon. and gallant Friend to the reply my right hon. Friend gave on the 11th March to the hon. Member for Central Southwark (Mr. Day).
§ Sir I. Alberyasked the Minister of Agriculture whether, with a view to helping the agricultural industry and as an aid to home defence, he will take any necessary action to increase the quantity of home-grown wheat upon which wheat deficiency payments can be made?
§ Mr. W. S. MorrisonI would refer my hon. Friend to the reply which I gave to a question by the hon. Member for Central2918W Southwark (Mr. Day) on 11th March, 1937, of which I am sending him a copy and to which I am at present unable to add.