HC Deb 17 October 1950 vol 478 cc226-7W
Sir W. Smithers

asked the President of the Board of Trade if he will give a list of articles of food and commodities of which the Government are the sole importers.

Mr. Bottomley

Yes. The list set out below relates only to goods of which the Government is the sole importer; it does not include goods imported by statutory bodies or goods of which the Government is the major, but not the sole importer:

Soft wood Dried fruits:
True Hemp Currants
Jute and jute goods Pears
Sulphur, pyrites, certain fertilisers and fertiliser raw materials Prunes
Sultanas
Apricots
Raisins
Chrome ore Bacon and Ham
Lead metal, unwrought Tea (except China tea)
Zinc metal, unwrought Raw cocoa
Copper (unwrought) Rice
Virgin aluminium Apples
Oilcake and meals Bananas
Rice Bran Wheat
Fish meal Flour
Whalemeat meal Rye
Meat meal Coarse Grains
Bone meal Wheat offals
Locust beans Sugar
Potatoes (ware) Canned fish:
Orange juice (welfare) Sardines
Carcase meat and offal Barracouta
Canned corned meat Herring
Butter Tunny
Cheese (rationed) Brisling
Condensed milk Sild
Dried milk Pilchard
Block milk Crab
Buttermilk powder Crawfish
Whey powder Salmon
Coffee Starch and starch products:
Animal fats
Benniseed Farina
Copra Farina dextrine
Coconut oil Maize starch
Cotton seed Cassava starch
Cotton seed oil Tapioca flour
Groundnuts Canned fruit, the following:
Groundnut oil
Herring oil Peaches
Other fish oils Pears
Illipe nuts Apricots
Kapok seed Pineapple
Linseed Two fruits
Linseed oil Fruit salad
Maize oil Fruit cocktail
Palm kernels Grapefruit
Palm oil Mandarin oranges
Soya beans Grapes
Sunflower seed Eggs in shell
Sunflower seed oil Frozen egg
Shea nuts Dried egg
Whale oil Dried albumen
Dried yolk
Glycerine yolk
Medicinal glucose