§ 65. Mr. Peter Millsasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food why 269W the compounders are buying wheat flour at an average price of £24 a ton and then selling the offal, that is middlings, for £27 a ton or more.
§ Mr. HoyI assume the hon. Member's Question is intended to refer to flour millers who are buying wheat, and not to compounders buying wheat flour. Flour millers buy wheat and sell wheat offals at prices which are determined by supply and demand conditions. In selling home-produced offals they have to compete with imported wheat offals and a wide range of other home-produced and imported feeding stuffs.