HC Deb 10 February 1954 vol 523 cc126-7W
67. Mr. Coldrick

asked the Minister of Food what price his Department pays per hundredweight for home-produced bacon, and for bacon received from Holland and Denmark.

Major Lloyd George

The present estimated cost of home-produced bacon is about 380s. per cwt. ex factory. The cost is dependent among other things upon the prices paid for pigs which now vary with changes in the cost of feedingstuffs.

The price paid for Danish and Dutch bacon is 237s. 6d. per cwt. c. &f. U.K. port.