HL Deb 08 February 1972 vol 327 cc1128-30WA
LORD GISBOROUGH

asked Her Majesty's Government:

The percentage of warbled hide throughput of ox and heifer in England and Wales for each of the months April to July during the last four years.

LORD DENHAM

Information collected by the Hide and Allied Trades Improvement Society from forty representative hide markets in England and Wales indicates that the percentage of hide throughput with open warble holes was as follows:

April May June July
1968 19.6 19.0 19.7 18.5
1969 19.4 23.9 19.1 19.2
1970 22.4 34.4 28.8 26.9
1971 23.8 39.4 36.0 25.8

House adjourned at twenty-five minutes before six o'clock