§ 71. Sir W. Smithersasked the Minister of Food to state in detail the amount of foodstuffs exported from Britain during 1947; and the stocks of food in Britain on 1st January, 1948, as compared with 1st January, 1947.
§ Dr. SummerskillBelow is a statement giving the exports of food in the year 1947. Full details of the exports will be found in the December Trade and Navigation Accounts which were laid on the Table of the House yesterday. Stocks of food and feedingstuffs in the United Kingdom amounted to 4,762 thousand tons on 1st January, 1948 and 4,033 thousand tons on 1st January, 1947.
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SUMMARY OF PRINCIPAL EXPORTS OF FOOD, BEVERAGES AND ANIMAL FEEDINGSTUFFS (produce and manufactures of the United Kingdom) in the calendar year 1947 Commodity. Thousand tons. Wheat meal and flour 9.8 Oat products 0.6 Malt 3.8 Other grain pulses products of milling and allied industries, and other farinaceous substances 32.1 Cereal by-products 1.3 Other feedingstuffs for animals 9.8 Bacon and ham 0.7
Extracts and essences (meat) 0.5 All other meat and meat products 0.2 Margarine 6.1 Milk condensed, whole 2.5 Milk powder 0.5 Fruit, fresh 1.9 Potatoes 54.8 Other fresh vegetables and nuts used as fruit 3.7 Chicory 0.5 Cocoa butter 1.0 Cocoa preparations not containing spirit —containing sugar 11.5 —not containing sugar 17.9 Coffee, kiln dried, roasted or ground 1.4 Coffee and chicory extracts and essences 0.7 Standard barrels. Beer 85,660 Gallons Fruit juice, not fortified with spirit 330,223 Proof Gallons. Spirits, home made 7,592,422 Thousand tons. Biscuits for human consumption 15.5 Fish, fresh or frozen 15.3 Fish, cured or salted, not canned 39.8 Fish, including shell fish, canned (including canned fishpaste) 4.9 Hops 1.6 Oils and fats, refined, edible, including shortening, lard compound and compound cooking fat 7.3 Mustard 0.5 Pickles and sauces, etc., sweetened 1.1 Sugar, refined, including sugar candy 272.1 Molasses and invert sugar, etc. 6.2 Confectionery (except chocolate confectionery) 6.1 Marmalade, jams and fruit jellies 2.3 Vegetables preserved in airtight containers, not preserved in vinegar 2.3 NOTE.—These figures include shipments by N.A.A.F.I. and similar organisations, relief shipments, and supplies sent to the Channel Islands and to Colonial dependencies, for which the United Kingdom has purchasing responsibility. Certain items of food and beverages have not been included either because the quantity is less than 500 tons or because separate figures of quantities exported are not available.