§ Colonel Carverasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food whether, in the coming year, he will permit small poultry keepers growing their own wheat to retain the yield for the feeding-stuffs of their birds?
Major Lloyd GeorgeIt is not possible to give any undertaking as to the uses of wheat which will be permitted next year. My Noble Friend regards it as essential that unless circumstances differ very materially from those at present obtaining, the greatest possible quantity of home-grown wheat should continue to be used for flour milling and that no mill-able wheat should be diverted to the feeding of poultry or other animals.