§ Mr. F. Willeyasked the Minister of Food how the consumption of milk per head in large families compares with consumption of single persons and married people without families.
§ Major Lloyd GeorgeAccording to the National Food Survey, which is based on a sampling procedure, the best estimates of domestic consumption and school milk, for the second half of 1951 (which is the latest period for which information is available) are as follows:
Liquid Milk Pints per person per week. Single person 5.9 One man, one woman only 5.5 One man, one woman and 3 children under 14 4.9 One man, one woman and 4 or more children under 14 4.4 One man, one woman with children and adolescents 4.4