§ Sir E. Graham-Littleasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food what are the priority and other purposes referred to in the instruction, C.M.C. 191, issued to controlled millers and dated 30th April, for which millers are allowed to utilise the germ; what is the source of the supply, both for these purposes and for the further provision of germ to be placed at the disposal of millers in the ordinary way of trade; and whether permission for these uses of the germ overrides the direction prohibiting separate extraction of wheat germ in process of milling national wheatmeal contained in S.R. & O. No. 451?
Major Lloyd GeorgeThe purposes referred to are in connection with the manufacture of certain medical products which my Noble Friend, in consultation with my right hon. Friend the Minister of Health, has agreed should continue to be available. The germ required is obtained from the milling of speciality flours in which germ is not a statutory ingredient, and the answer to the last part of the Question is, therefore, in the negative.