§ 93. Mr. Hector Hughesasked the Minister of Food whether he is aware that certain trades in the City of Aberdeen are greatly prejudiced by the deprivation of the subsidiary products derived from the slaughtering of cattle there owing to the new war-time practice, since continued, of exporting live instead of dead meat; that unemployment is caused 360W thereby; and what steps he proposes to take to restore those trades and obviate that unemployment.
§ Mr. StracheyI am aware that certain processors of animal by-products in Aberdeen are not working to maximum capacity but they are relatively better off for supplies than the processors in other areas. As I informed my hon. and learned Friend in reply to his Question on 23rd February, the movement of live cattle is necessary to provide a reasonable minimum standard of work for slaughtermen in other areas and I am not prepared to alter the present arrangements.