§ 86. Mr. Sparksasked the Minister of Food the quantity of butter, cheese, meat and other products of agriculture imported from France during 1948; and what prospects there are of increasing these imports in the future.
§ Dr. SummerskillAs the answer to the first part of the hon. Member's Question contains a number of figures, I will circulate it in the OFFICIAL REPORT. We have recently received small supplies of pork and, subject to price, we hope to get more in future. We are unlikely to obtain any butter: but we are importing substantially increased quantities of cheeses, and canned meats. We are also getting useful quantities of animal feedingstuffs.
52WFollowing is the statement:
IMPORTS INTO THE UNITED KINGDOM CONSIGNED FROM FRANCE IN THE YEAR ENDED 31ST DECEMBER, 1948 Quantity Tons Butter (Government Imports) Insignificant (1 cwt.) Cheese (Government Imports) 2,249 Other milk products (Government Imports) 24 Meat, including canned meat and meat products (Private Imports) 274 Poultry (Government Imports) 30 Wheat (Government Imports) 18,001 Other cereals and cereal products 10 Fresh fruit and table nuts (Private Imports) 17,070 Fresh vegetables (Private Imports) 6,094 Miscellaneous fruit and vegetable products (Private Imports) 9,336 Gallons Cider and perry (Private Imports) 1,001,116 Fruit juice (Private Imports) 17,927 Tons Tomato juice (Private Imports) 1,374 Gallons Wine (Private Imports) 1,911,190 Proof Gallons Brandy (Private Imports) 510,860 Liqueurs and high strength spirit (Private Imports) 90,925