Milk

HC Deb 29 January 1953 vol 510 cc152-3W

Mr. Hastings

asked the Minister of Food the cost, wholesale and retail, of a gallon of whole-milk in dried and liquid form.

Major Lloyd George

The wholesale and retail prices of a gallon of whole-milk in liquid form are 3s. 3½d. and 4s. 4d., respectively. Dried milk is sold through wholesale and retail channels only in the form of proprietary infant foods. There is no price control on these products, of which there is a wide variety, and I have no information about relative prices at different stages of distribution.

Mr. Willey

asked the Minister of Food the consumption of school milk for the month of December, 1952.

Major Lloyd George

The provisional total for the United Kingdom is 3.6 million gallons.