Mr. De la B èreasked the Chancell or of the Duchy of Lancaster whether he can give an assurance, in connection with the Government's wheat reserve scheme, regarding the turning over and accepting 1828W the Government's wheat by the milling concerns, that these concerns have maintained, and are maintaining, their commercial stocks of wheat at the same level as they stood prior to the introduction of this scheme?
§ Mr. W. S. MorrisonCommercial stocks vary from time to time. Those in the hands of the three large milling concerns are substantially higher at the present time than when the wheat storage scheme was introduced. I am quite satisfied that these concerns are carrying out the undertaking which they gave to the Government and which my right hon. Friend the President of the Board of Trade reported to the House during his speech on the 2nd June, 1938, on the Second Reading of the Essential Commodities Reserves Bill.