§ Mr. Wootton-Daviesasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of War Transport whether, in view of the importance to his Department of accurate knowledge of haulage rates, he will ascertain from the Milk Marketing Board, and publish the rates it has approved for the carriage of milk in different parts of the country?
§ Mr. Noel-BakerRoad haulage rates for the collection of milk are settled by agreement between the Milk Marketing Board and the hauliers concerned, or, if no agreement is reached, by arbitration. The rates are not, of course, uniform in different places; each rate must be settled by reference to the circumstances of the case, and the costs involved. I do not think, however, that there are any departmental926W reasons which would justify the labour involved in the publication of the large number of individual rates involved.