§ 61. Wing-Commander Robinsonasked the Minister of Food whether he is prepared to reopen negotiations with Australia and New Zealand with the object of ascertaining whether a small increase in the prices paid to those Dominions for pig-meat would assist them in stimulating production and so enable 206W them to make a greater contribution to the food requirements of this country.
§ Dr. SummerskillWe are only too anxious to obtain from Australia and New Zealand all the meat they can send us whether it is pork, mutton or beef, and the Governments of those countries are well aware of this. If they had thought that a higher price would increase the quantity available for export, I feel sure they would have asked us for it and we would have willingly considered it at the recent trade discussions.