HC Deb 18 October 1946 vol 427 cc265-6W
Mr. C. Smith

asked the Minister of Food what nutritional surveys are regularly made by his Department; and what information on this subject collected by other authorities is regularly communicated to his Department.

Mr. Strachey

The nutritional surveys at present regularly made by my Department are:

  1. (i) The National Food Survey.
  2. (ii) The Survey of expenditure on foods under the Points Scheme.
  3. (iii) The Special Bread Survey.

Special surveys of groups of employees of particular industries in different parts of the country are also made. As to the second part of the Question the results of two types of nutritional survey conducted by the Ministry of Health are received by my Department: (i) Clinical examination of representative groups of the population; (ii) Surveys of the growth of school children. The reports and memorandum of the Advisory Committee and Bureau of Nutrition Surveys of the Nutrition Society are also received as issued.