Mr. De la Bèreasked the Minister of Agriculture (1) whether he is prepared to consider setting up a Government commission to control the sale of eggs by grade weight;
(2) whether he is prepared to consider setting up a producers' board as a price-fixing committee regulating the sale price of eggs?
§ Mr. W. S. MorrisonI would refer my hon. Friend to the reply I gave to the hon. Members for Normanton (Mr. T. Smith) and Linlithgow (Mr. Mathers) on 14th February. My hon. Friend will appreciate that it is for the producers themselves to decide whether they will submit a scheme for the regulation of the marketing of their product by a producers' board and the form that any such scheme shall take.