HC Deb 03 February 1938 vol 331 cc416-7W
Mr. Leach

asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he is aware that the Bradford Public Assistance Committee, having placed a contract for milk at an agreed price with a firm of non-producers, were obliged by the Milk Marketing Board to increase the price by ¼d. per gallon in accordance with a new regulation; and whether he will take action to allow original agreed contracts to go through in all such cases?

Mr. W. S. Morrison

I assume that the dairyman in question contracted to supply milk to the Bradford Public Assistance Committee before he was aware of the terms, including those governing re-sale, on which milk could be sold to him by registered milk producers. The terms prescribed by the Milk Marketing Board, after consultation with the Central Milk Distributive Committee, for the sale of milk by registered milk producers during the year October, 1937, to September, 1938, provided for a re-sale price of ¼d. a gallon more than the price at which the dairyman contracted to sell to the Public Assistance Committee. As to the last part of the question, I have no power to intervene.