HC Deb 23 October 1946 vol 427 c407W
Sir H. Morris-Jones

asked the Minister of Agriculture the total production of eggs in this country per annum and the comparable figure prewar.

Mr. T. Williams

The gross production of hen and duck eggs, including eggs used for hatching, by both commercial and domestic poultry keepers in England and Wales is estimated to have averaged 4,107 million in the years 1936–37 to 1938–39, 2,470 million in 1944–45, and is provisionally estimated to have amounted to 2,789 million in 1945–46.