HC Deb 19 December 1938 vol 342 cc2496-7W
Captain Plugge

asked the Minister of Agriculture what have been the annual changes in the amount of butter and cheese produced in this country since the Milk Marketing Board was set up?

Mr. W. S. Morrison

The amounts of butter and cheese produced annually in England and Wales since the commencement of the Milk Marketing Scheme in October, 1933, are estimated to have been approximately as follow:

Butter. Cheese.
Year. Cwt. Cwt.
1933–34 … 630,000 840,000
1934–35 … 730,000 1,040,000
1935–36 … 820,000 970,000
1936–37 … 750,000 730,000
1937–38 … 640,000 (a) 700,000 (a)
(a) Provisional figures.