§ 71. Mr. Sorensenasked the Minister of Food what are the present arrangements for the importation of bananas, from what areas these are being imported, and to what extent the import of dried bananas has increased since the end of the war.
§ Mr. StracheyMy Department buys bananas from Jamaica, the British Cameroons and the Canary Islands. Dried bananas are improted on private account under licence. The quantity received in 1944 was negligible; it is now about 1,100 tons a year.