§ 23. Mr. Hurdasked the Minister of Food for an estimate of the amount of the food consumed in this country which 2W comes from overseas, with an explanation of how he arrives at that estimate.
§ Major Lloyd GeorgeOf the various methods by which the proportions of home-produced and imported food consumed in the United Kingdom can be calculated the best available at the moment is that based on a translation into calorie values of the total food consumed. On this basis it is estimated that in 1951 imports contributed about 60 per cent. of total consumption.