§ Sir E. Graham-Littleasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food whether he is yet in a position to supply 1186W an approximate estimate of the reduction brought about in the sales of the white loaf of ordinary consumption by the demand for the national wheatmeal loaf; and whether the information at his disposal gives him any reason to believe that the demand for national wheatmeal has led to any substantial decline in the sales of wheat to feeding-stuff merchants and patent food manufacturers which he recently agreed to be at the rate of about 1,500,000 tons a year?
Major Lloyd GeorgeNo recent figures of bread output are available but consumption of all descriptions of flour has tended to increase during recent months, the percentage increase in deliveries of national wheatmeal and other high extraction flours being slightly higher than that of white flour. It is too soon, however, to estimate the demand for the national wheatmeal loaf. As regards the latter part of the Question no millable wheat may now be fed to livestock. Sales of milling offals have increased of late as a result of the increase in the output of flour but- are as yet little affected by the slight rise in consumption of high extraction flour.