§ 91. Mr. Walkdenasked the Minister of Food whether the townships of Doncaster and Askern are included in the scheme to provide extra supplies of fats and other food to shopkeepers in mining areas and certain industrial districts, or why they have not been so included.
§ Dr. SummerskillCertain coalmining areas around Doncaster are included, but Doncaster and Askern are not included in the first, provisional, list. A review is now being made of the whole country in order to correct any inequalities which may remain, and the case of Doncaster and Askern will be considered under this.
§ Sir A. Salterasked the Minister of Food the calorie value of the food rations allowed to miners at home and in mining area canteens as compared with what is allowed to other heavy industry workers and to the general public.
§ Mr. StracheyThe calorie value of the ordinary domestic (including points and personal points, but of course excluding all unrationed foods) is about 1,700 calories per day. Underground miners receive for consumption at home an extra is. worth of meat and 12 bread units per week. Other heavy industrial workers receive six extra bread units per week. The calorie value of their consumption of rationed foods at home is thus increased to 2,700 calories per day for underground miners and to 2,100 calories for-other heavy workers. Category A industrial canteens are available for use by miners and other heavy industrial workers. If they take one main meal a day they can obtain a further 800 calories per day, making 3,500 calories a day of rationed food for miners and 2,900 for other heavy workers. The average calorie intake from all foods for the nation as a whole is 2,900 calories per day. This includes the whole range of the varying types of consumer from the infant on the one hand to the heavy industrial worker already mentioned.