§ 31. Mr. Goughasked the Minister of Food the value to an adult of food subsidies on the weekly rations, together with milk and bread.
§ Major Lloyd GeorgeIncluding eggs, about 11d. a week at current levels of distribution. This figure takes no account of the subsidies on animal feedingstuffs or fertilisers amounting to about £42 million in 1952–53, all of which have the effect of reducing the prices of home-produced foods to the consumer.