HC Deb 31 March 1947 vol 435 c257W
109. Mr. Henderson Stewart

asked the President of the Board of Trade the price paid to farmers for clean wheat straw for sale to the Straw Trading Company in Scotland; the margin paid to the merchant; and the cost of such straw delivered to the paper mills.

Mr. Belcher

All straw for paper making is bought by the Paper Control from the Straw Trading Company and sold by the Control to mills at a uniform price. The Straw Trading Company pay to straw merchants for wheat straw in Scotland £4 12s. a ton delivered by road to mills and £4 7s. f.o.r. The merchants undertake to retain no more than 7s. a ton as their commission. The Paper Control sell delivered to mills at £5 10s.