Home Produced Supplies (Calories)

HC Deb 22 July 1946 vol 425 cc306-7W

Mr. Hurd

asked the Minister of Food the proportion of the nation's total food supplies, in terms of calories, provided by home production in the years 1938, 1944 and 1946 and, particularly, the proportions of wheat, other cereals, potatoes, sugar, meat, dairy produce and eggs

Mr. Strachey

Home produced supplies of food (excluding barley for brewing) calculated on a calorie basis, as a proportion of total food supplies in the five prewar years, 1944 and 1945–46 are given below:

Calories from:	Prewar (1934/35 to 1938/39).	1944.	1945/46 (June/July).
All Foods	30	40	39
Wheat Flour	10	39	24
Other Cereals.	32	63	77
Potatoes	97	100	100
Sugar and Syrups.	23	24	33
Meat	42	29	39
Dairy Produce.	82	78	83
Eggs and Products.	59	43	45

Figures for the year 1938 and for Me whole of 1946 are not available. The hon. Member will appreciate that there are other bases of calculation, which gives appreciably different results.