§ 3. Mr. Osborneasked the Minister of Food if he will give in tabular form the description, quantity and price of all home-produced foods, showing the total cost of each item; and also the world price and world cost of each item.
(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) — Estimated sales of home production for year to 30th June, 1952 Estimated current average prices of home produce Total cost of home produce Estimated current average cost of overseas purchases (c.i.f. landed excluding duty) Total cost of imports based on tonnages shown in column (2) '000 tons per ton £m. per ton £m. CROPS: £ s. d. £ s. d. Wheat … 1,480 28 2 0 41.6 33 16 0 50.0 Barley … 1,135 43 12 0 49.5 34 10 0 39.2 Oats … 325 27 2 0 8.8 33 18 0 11.0 Potatoes … 5,065 11 8 6 57.9 — — Sugar (refined) … 600 54 10 0 32.7 54 5 0 32.5 CARCASE MEAT: Beef … 583 182 19 3 106.7 126 12 0 73.8 Mutton and lamb … 135 252 14 2 34.1 136 0 1 18.4 Pigs for pork … 96 258 9 11 24.8 206 19 11 19.9 Pigs for bacon … 292 308 18 8 90.2 204 17 4 59.8 Veal … 28 85 8 6 2.4 105 19 10 3.0 million per gallon LIVESTOCK PRODUCTS: gallons s. d. Milk … 1,810 3 2¼ 288.5 — — per dozen per dozen dozen s. d. s. d. Shell eggs … 384,167,000 4 7 88.0 3 3 62.4 NOTES: 1. Crops. The prices in column (3) represent approximate estimates of the present average prices recoverable by farmers. 2. Carcase meat. While livestock is purchased from producers, it has been necessary, for purpose of comparison with the cost of imported meat, to adjust the producer prices paid for livestock by the cost of slaughtering, less the average receipts from sales of offals, etc. It must be stressed, however, that the figures in column (3) are for fresh home-produced meat, while those in column (2) are for imported frozen meat. 3. There are no imports of potatoes or milk.