§ Sir W. Darlingasked the Minister of Food what proportion of the 226,600 tons of breakfast food produced and sold in Britain are so produced from dollar-purchased maize and wheat; and what proportion of breakfast foods consumed in Britain are entirely British grown and processed.
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§ Mr. WebbNone of the maize products included in this total was derived from dollar maize. As most of the wheat based cereal breakfast foods were derived from a varying mixture of non-dollar and dollar wheats, I cannot state the precise proportion produced from dollar wheat,
CONSUMPTION OF BREAKFAST FOODS Period—12 months, March, 1949-February. 1950 1. 2. 3. Analysis of Consumption (Col 2) according to origin of cereal content Type of Breakfast Foods Consumption of Breakfast Foods (a) Produced from home grown cereals (b) Produced from non-dollar imported wheat and maize (c) Produced from dollar costing wheat '000 tons '000 tons '000 tons '000 tons 1. PROCESSED IN UNITED KINGDOM: (a) Oat products (Oatmeal, oat-flakes, etc.) 139.2 139.2 — — (b) Cereal breakfast foods— (i) Maize based 42.3 — 42.3 — (ii) Wheat based* 37.7 4.9 16.4 16.4 (iii) Bran based* 4.1 1.3 1.4 1.4 (iv) Barley based 0.1 0.1 — — (c) Total processed in United Kingdom 223.4 145.5 60.1 17.8 2. IMPORTED OAT PRODUCTS 3.2 TOTAL CONSUMPTION 226.6 * These products contain a mixture of home grown and imported wheat or products thereof.