§ Mr. Russellasked the Minister of Food the retail prices in all the countries of the Organisation for European Economic Co-operation in June, 1952, or the latest convenient date as disclosed in the Organisation's statistics, of sugar, butter, margarine, lard, cheese, eggs, beef, mutton, pork, bacon, tea, coffee, bread.
194W
RETAIL PRICES OF FOOD IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND CERTAIN O.E.E.C. COUNTRIES (Shillings and Pence per lb.) Commodity United Kingdom (June) latest available France (May) Denmark (April) Norway (April) Switzerland (May) Western Germany (June) Austria (June) s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. Sugar 6 1 2 4 4½ 9¾ 1 0¼ 10 Butter 2 6 6 2¼ 2 11 3 7¼ 7 4½ 4 5 4 3 Margarine 1 2 3 1¾ 1 8½ 1 1 NA 1 4½ 1 3½ Lard (or cooking fat) 1 4 3 3 1 10¼ 1 2½ 2 4 NA 2 0 Cheese 2 0 5 5¼ 2 6¼ 2 0¼ 4 1¼ NA 3 2¼ Eggs (per dozen) 5 0 4 6 3 3 NA 5 3 4 6 3 6 Beef (rib roast) 2 4 2 7¾ 2 10¼ 3 8 4 9 3 4¾ 2 6 Mutton (leg) 2 10 7 5¼ NA 3 4½ 5 6 NA NA Pork (chops) 3 4 4 7½ 2 9¾ 3 8 6 1½ 3 7 3 7¼ Bacon 3 5 2 11¾ NA 3 8 5 11¼ NA NA Tea 4 6 NA 10 1½ 13 1½ 12 0¼ NA 14 11½ Coffee 5 4 8 7¾ 6 11½ 3 10½ 6 6½ 25 1¼ 10 5½ Bread 4¼ 5½ 6¼ 6¼ 4½ 5¾ 5¼ NA=Not available. and the amount charged by his Department for these potatoes.
§ Major Lloyd GeorgeThe following is the information.
potatoes, apples, oranges and lemons, respectively.
§ Major Lloyd GeorgeThe Organisation for European Economic Co-operation does not publish statistics of the retail prices of food in member countries, but the following table shows the latest information so far as it is available from the official statistics published by individual countries: