Mr. G. Williansasked the Minister of Food whether he is aware that there is so much bacon on the market at the present time that the English curers are accumulating larger stocks every day and that this in turn necessitates the cutting down of slaughterings by English curers and the leaving of more pigs on the farm; and whether he will consider the possibility of putting a certain proportion of imported surplus bacon into cold store so as to enable English curers to dispose more rapidly of their own stock.
Mr. AmoryI am not aware that English curers are accumulating large stocks of bacon; they are taking all the suitable pigs offered to them. The last part of the Question does not, therefore, arise.